Books by Gregory Zuckerman
“Jim Simons is the hedge fund manager who created one of the biggest and most successful quant funds, Renaissance Technologies. The book is written by a journalist from the Wall Street Journal, Gregory Zuckerman. Again, this book gets my admiration as a journalist, because he succeeds in opening up an industry, a company and a person that are notoriously private. Simons’s own story is pretty extraordinary. He was a gifted mathematician and a codebreaker. His talent appears to have been in finding people from a range of places outside the finance industry—mathematicians, computer scientists and physicists—who would contribute as a team to building these algorithms and codes that would allow them to crack open the global markets and make a vast amount of money.” Read more...
The Best Business Books of 2019: the Financial Times & McKinsey Book of the Year Award
Andrew Hill, Journalist
Interviews where books by Gregory Zuckerman were recommended
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Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America
by Christopher Leonard -
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The Third Pillar: How Markets and the State Leave the Community Behind
by Raghuram G Rajan -
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The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution
by Gregory Zuckerman -
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
by Shoshana Zuboff -
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Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
by Caroline Criado Perez -
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Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
by David Epstein
The Best Business Books of 2019: the Financial Times & McKinsey Book of the Year Award, recommended by Andrew Hill
The Best Business Books of 2019: the Financial Times & McKinsey Book of the Year Award, recommended by Andrew Hill
Confused about which of the thousands of business books published in 2019 to read? Fortunately, the Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award has sifted through hundreds of entries to pick the very best. Andrew Hill, the FT’s management editor and author of Ruskinland, talks us through the six brilliant books that made this year’s shortlist.
