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Dune

By Frank Herbert , #1 of Dune series

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From Michael's 3 favorite reads in 2025.

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Unknown Author Why Michael loves this book

Very immersive world building. Lots of details there for the reader willing to spend the time.

Dune

By Frank Herbert ,

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76 authors picked Dune as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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Before The Matrix, before Star Wars, before Ender's Game and Neuromancer, there was Dune: winner of the prestigious Hugo and Nebula awards, and widely considered one of the greatest science fiction novels ever written.

Melange, or 'spice', is the most valuable - and rarest - element in the universe; a drug that does everything from increasing a person's lifespan to making interstellar travel possible. And it can only be found on a single planet: the inhospitable desert world of Arrakis.

Whoever controls Arrakis controls the spice. And whoever controls the spice controls the universe.

When the Emperor transfers stewardship of…

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Aggressor by FX Holden,

It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.

The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…

Lombard Street, a Description of the Money Market

By Walter Bagehot ,

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Max Gillman Author Of The Spectre of Price Inflation

From my list on Walter Bagehot’s challenge.

By Max Gillman Author

Why am I passionate about this?

I remember in high school going to the gas pump and filling up during the oil crisis of the 1970s. Inflation was everywhere, but I had no idea what that was. I learned something about this in college and then in Congress as a legislative aide. I remember distinctly a conversation in Congress on how we were going to pay for these huge deficits that arose out of the Reagan tax cuts, all the while when inflation was peaking at that time. I had no idea. I then spent my PhD working in monetary economics to show the effect of inflation on the economy and have not stopped yet.

Max's book list on Walter Bagehot’s challenge

Book cover of The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking, and the Future of the Global Economy Book cover of Monetary Regimes and Inflation: History, Economic and Political Relationships Book cover of Money Mischief: Episodes in Monetary History Book cover of The Evolution of Central Banks Book cover of Lombard Street, a Description of the Money Market

Max Gillman Why Max loves this book

Lombard Street is the classic statement of how central banks began functioning to insure the private bank system against bank panics. Walter Bagehot wrote this at the time of a revolution in banking that came about after the Joint Stock Companies Act of 1862 allowed private banks to have limited liability. Banking then boomed in England, and the Bank of England went from being a private bank to a bank also serving the Crown of England, and finally into a central bank as we see them today. 

The Bank of England would hold reserves for the entire private banking system should they need them in times of bank panic, which were periodic in those days (and still today). At the same time, the Bank provided the money supply through note issue. This created a money and banking authority that was efficient in its practice of stabilizing the money and financial…

Lombard Street, a Description of the Money Market

By Walter Bagehot ,

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2 authors picked Lombard Street, a Description of the Money Market as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.

Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been…

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