What books would you guys recommend to someone who is majoring in Business/Econ as an Undergrad.
If anything, I’d start reading the Wall Street Journal or the busienss section of a well respected newspaper like the NYTimes.
For daily reading, I spent my Freshman year reading WSJ everyday since my school offered free copies. It definitely helped me in terms of class participation for some of my courses since I could use up to date examples and ask questions relevant to current events which surprised a lot of my professors. This in turn helped me develop a closer relationship with them and I ended up having great recommendations for my transfer application to a higher ranked undergrad b-school. The examples also help in terms of just understanding the material and applying the concepts to a higher level outside of the curriculum.
I would also strongly recommend The Economist, you can get student discount subscriptions for about $1/issue. I still subscribe to it since it’s a weekly release that provides a condense recap of global events including political, fiscal, general industry news, etc. It’s not as time consuming as the WSJ and gives you all the biggest events in the past week along with a lot of forward looking trends that I use for investing.
In terms of books, some of my fav business books:
Finance/Econ
- The Little Book series
- A Random Walk Down Wall Street
- Liar’s Poker
- Spin-Free Economics
- Freakonomics
- Damodaran on Valuation
Management/General Business
- The Lords of Strategy
- The Strategist
- Multipliers
- Data Driven
Anything by Thomas Sowell (though I’d wait on his Applied Economics book, kinda more advanced).
The case of the missing cuttlery is a short read and pretty interesting.
Freakonomics
I’d suggest reading one article per day from the WSJ AND one article from the NYT. Doesn’t matter what topic, just get in the habit of reading two articles, one per day or more.