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Books like Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics

12 books with a reading profile close to Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics by Richard H. Thaler. Outward-looking and clear-cut; a moderate read.

1

The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron

by Bethany McLean

Also outward-looking and clear-cut · analytical, narrative

Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind document the organizational culture and accounting strategies that led to the collapse of the Enron Corporation.
2

Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco

by Bryan Burrough

Also outward-looking and clear-cut · analytical, narrative

Bryan Burrough and John Helyar chronicle the 1988 leveraged buyout of RJR Nabisco, the largest corporate takeover of its era.
3

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

by Michael Lewis

Also outward-looking and clear-cut · analytical, narrative

Michael Lewis tracks the mechanics of the 2008 global financial collapse by following a small group of eccentric investors who anticipated the subprime mortgage crisis.
4

Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World

by Michael Lewis

Also outward-looking and clear-cut · analytical, narrative

Michael Lewis tracks the global aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis by visiting nations that experienced extreme credit bubbles.
5

Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis — and Themselves

by Andrew Ross Sorkin

Also outward-looking and clear-cut · analytical, narrative

Andrew Ross Sorkin reconstructs the day-by-day mechanics of the 2008 financial collapse, focusing on the frantic negotiations between Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke, and the chief e…
6

All the President’s Men

by Carl Bernstein

Also outward-looking · analytical, narrative

In 1972, a botched burglary at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate complex triggered an investigation by Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.
7

Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief

by Lawrence Wright

Also outward-looking · analytical, narrative

Lawrence Wright investigates the internal mechanics of the Church of Scientology, tracing its evolution from L.
8

Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

by Kristin Kobes Du Mez

Also outward-looking · analytical, narrative

Kristin Kobes Du Mez traces the seventy-year evolution of American evangelicalism from a religious movement focused on internal piety into a political force defined by militant patriarchy.
9

The Right Stuff

by Tom Wolfe

Also outward-looking and clear-cut · analytical, narrative

In 1959, the United States selected seven military test pilots to become the first astronauts for Project Mercury.
10

Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town

by Jon Krakauer

Also outward-looking · analytical, narrative

Jon Krakauer documents several sexual assault cases occurring between 2010 and 2012 in Missoula, Montana, focusing on the experiences of female students at the University of Montana.
11

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

by John Perkins

Also outward-looking and clear-cut · analytical, narrative

John Perkins details his career as a consultant for MAIN, where he manipulated developing nations into accepting massive infrastructure loans.
12

Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation

by Michael Pollan

Also outward-looking · analytical, narrative

In "Cooked," Michael Pollan examines the physical and cultural evolution of food through the lens of the four classical elements: fire, water, air, and earth.

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