Read, Watch, and Listen

For a deeper understanding of the issues confronting corporations and society today, below is a list of recommended books, feature films, documentaries, and podcasts.

Books (arranged alphabetically by author)

• Baker, Raymond (2023), Invisible Trillions: How Financial Secrecy is Imperiling Capitalism and Democracy – and the Way to Renew our Broken System
• Barofsky, Neil (2012), Bailout: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street
• Brown, Elliot and Maureen Farrell (2021), The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion
• Bullough, Oliver (2019), Moneyland: The Inside Story of the Crooks and Kleptocrats Who Rule the World
• Bullough, Oliver (2022), Butler to the World: How Britain Helps the World's Worst People Launder Money, Commit Crimes, and Get Away with Anything
• Casey, Michel (2021), American Kleptocarcy: How the U.S. Created the World's Greatest Money Laundering Scheme in History
• Conaughton, Jeff (2013), Payoff: Why Wall Street Always Wins
• Das Satyajit (2010), Traders, Guns and Money: Knowns and unknowns in the dazzling world of derivatives,
• Enrich, David (2020), Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction
• Freeman, James and Vern McKinley (2018), Borrowed Time: Two Centuries of Booms, Busts and Bailouts at Citi
• Gelles, David (2022), The Man Who Broke Capitalism: How Jack Welch Gutted the Heartland and Crushed the Soul of Corporate America—and How to Undo His Legacy
• Heffernan, Margaret (2012) Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril
• Indap, Sujeet and Max Frumes (2021), The Caesars Palace Coup: How a Billionaire Brawl Over the Famous Casino Exposed the Power and Greed of Wall Street
• Johnsen, Gudrun (2014), Bringing Down the Banking System: Lessons from Iceland, Gudrun Johnsen (available for free here.

• Lewis, Michael (2010) The Big Short (also feature movie 2015)
• Lewis, Michael (2015) Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt
• Luyendijk, Joris (2015) Swimming with Sharks: My Journey into the World of the Bankers,
• McCrum, Dan (2022), Money Men: A Hot Startup, A Billion Dollar Fraud, A Fight for the Truth
• Oreskes, Naomi and Eric Conway (2023), The Big Myth: How American 2 Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market
• Partnoy, Frank (2014), Infectious Greed: How Deceit and Risk Corrupted the Financial Markets
• Rakoff, Jed (2021), Why the Innocent Plead Guilty and the Guilty Go Free: And Other Paradoxes of our Broken Legal System
• Wylie, Bob (2020), Bandit Capitalism: Carillion and the Corruption of the British State

Feature films and documentaries

• “Money, Power and Wall Street,” Frontline documentary (2012)
• “The Big Short,” movie (2015) see also book by Lewis
• “The Pension Gamble,” Frontline documentary (2018)
• “Dirty Money,” Netflix (2018), esp. Season 1 Episodes 2, 3, 4, Season 2 Episodes 1, 4
• “Skandal,” Netflix documentary (2022)
• “Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street,” Netflix documentary series (2023)

Podcasts (many episodes)

• Bad Bets
• Business Scholarship
• FT TechTonic podcast (Aug 15-Sept 12, 2022)
• Lever Time
• A Long Time in Finance
• The Crypto Story with Matt Levine (Bloomberg Crypto Bonus episodes 1-7)
• Making a Killing
• The Journal
• Against the Rules with Michael Lewis, Season 1