Improve Financial Literacy – Books & Documentaries
The following list of books and documentaries represents an overview of the major financial shift that started happening a few decades ago. Not only in the US – in most industrial countries. The financial markets and societies are experiencing a paradigm shift. Most financial concepts and rules that used to be successful are no longer working.
These recommendations won’t provide you with a silver bullet on how to manage your money. However, they will provide you with a deep insight into the mechanics of money itself. How it has changed over the last 100 years, the consequences, and where it may go. It also shows you how central banks and governments have changed the meaning and the value of money, without you even noticing. It explains the major shifts in economics, education, and in wealth distribution worldwide.
From that perspective you will gain a solid, free from deception, financial knowledge that no universities, bankers or financial experts can ever provide. It will empower you to take full responsibility, and it will lead you to make better financial decisions. Eventually it will free you from money itself.
Dictionaries
Financial Terms Dictionary – Free Version with 200 Topics
Thomas Herold & Wesley Crowder
Financial Terms Dictionary – Terminology Plain & Simple Explained
Thomas Herold & Wesley Crowder
Investing
Guide to Investing In Gold and Silver
Michael Maloney
Bank On Yourself: The Life-Changing Secret to Protecting Your Financial Future
Pamela Yellen
Mindset
Rich Dad’s Prophecy
Robert T. Kiyosaki, Sharon L. Lechterr
Global Shift: How A New Worldview Is Transforming Humanity
Edmund J. Bourne
Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back
Douglas Rushkoff
Wealth
Sustainable Wealth
Axel Merk, William Poole
Unlimited Wealth: The Theory and Practice of Economic Alchemy
Pilzer, Paul Zane
Money & Currency
The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve
G. Edward Griffin, Dan Smoot
This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly
Carmen M. Reinhart, Kenneth Rogoff
The End of Money and the Future of Civilization
Thomas H. Greco Jr.
Money as Debt
Empire of Debt: The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis
William Bonner, Addison Wiggin
Web of Debt: The Shocking Truth About Our Money System and How We Can Break Free
Ellen Hodgson Brown
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
David Graeber
Economy & Society
The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power Is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World
Jeremy Rifkin
The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working: The Four Forgotten Needs That Energize Great Performance
Tony Schwartz
The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism
Rifkin, Jeremy
Beyond Money
The Best That Money Can’t Buy: Beyond Politics, Poverty, & War
Jacque Fresco
The Economics of Happiness
Mark Anielski
Grunch of Giants
R. Buckminster Fuller
Treknonomics – The Economics of Star Trek
Manu Saadia
Scarcity Versus Abundance
Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think
Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler
The Soul of Money: Reclaiming the Wealth of Our Inner Resources
Lynne Twist, Teresa Barker
Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition
Eisenstein, Charles
Documentary Films
Money as Debt
Paul Grignon
Money Versus Currency – Hidden Secrets Of Money
Mike Maloney
Finance and Capital Markets
Khan Academy
Zeitgeist – Part III Moving Forward
Peter Joseph
Money and Life
Katie Teague
Heist – Who Stole The American Dream?
Donald Goldmacher