2016 was the year of surprises, as a wave of populism
led to Britain backing Brexit and Americans electing Donald
Trump.
Perhaps seeking to better understand the world they
find themselves in, many leaders from the worlds of academia,
finance, industry, politics and technology turned to the pages
of Hillbilly Elegy: A
Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, by J. D. Vance.
It was the most-cited book in Bloomberg News’ annual
survey of candidates for the best read of the year. Among those who
nominated Hillbilly
Elegy: Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
President Neel
Kashkari, Harvard University Professor Greg
Mankiw, BlackRock Vice ChairmanPhilipp
Hildebrand, and Kase Capital Management Founder Whitney
Tilson.
Other titles receiving repeated mentions
were The Man Who Knew:
The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan, by Sebastian
Mallaby, The Silk
Roads: A New History of the World, by Peter Frankopan,
and The Euro and the
Battle of Ideas, by Markus K. Brunnermeier, Harold James and
Jean-Pierre Landau.
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