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The R&D Book Club is a reading group for crypto investors, founders and operators, policy professionals and others exploring power, infrastructure, technology, markets, institutions and individual decision makers through time-tested books.

(“R&D” stands for both Research & Development and Rashan & Dean, the investors behind the club.)

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Approved Book List

• Think and Grow Rich (1937)
• Theory of Games and Economic Behavior (1944)
• Games People Play: The Psychology of Human Relationships (1964)
• Maxims and Reflections (Ricordi) (1972 English edition; original text written c. 1528)
• John D.: The Founding Father of the Rockefellers (1980)
• Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco (1989)
• Liar’s Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street (1989)
• One Up on Wall Street: How to Use What You Already Know to Make Money in the Market (1989)
• The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance (1990)
• Den of Thieves (1991)
• The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power (1991)
• Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed (1994)
• Why Should White Guys Have All the Fun?: How Reginald Lewis Created a Billion-Dollar Business Empire (1995)
• Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet (1996)
• Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (1998)
• The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century’s On-line Pioneers (1998)
• Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age (1999)
• The Oligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia (2002)
• The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron (2003)
• The Violence of Modernity: Baudelaire, Irony, and the Politics of Form (2006)
• How the Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In (2009)
• The King of Oil: The Secret Lives of Marc Rich (2009)
• The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires (2010)
• The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor (2011)
• Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World (2011)
• The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation (2015)
• Why Aren’t They Shouting?: A Banker’s Tale of Change, Computers and Perpetual Crisis (2016)
• Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World (2017)
• The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness (2020)
• The Motive: Why So Many Leaders Abdicate Their Most Important Responsibilities (2020)
• The Dealmaker: Lessons from a Life in Private Equity (2021)
• The World for Sale: Money, Power, and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources (2021)
• Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth (2024)
• Stealing the Future: Sam Bankman-Fried, Elite Fraud, and the Cult of Techno-Utopia (2025)
• The Art of Spending Money: Simple Choices for a Richer Life (2025) </aside>

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R&D Administrators

Dean - co-founder and partner at Markets, Inc

Dean Eigenmann (@DeanEigenmann) on X

Rashan - co-founder and partner at LVC; US Policy at CCI

Rashan A. Colbert (@Rashan) on X

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