From The Greats placeholder

Michael Mauboussin

Investment research strategist

An investment-research professional whose career includes senior research roles at investment firms. His own reading list and original interviews connect investing with decision-making and complex systems.

Recommendations sourcedAuthorship kept separateBooks about kept separate

Investor Investing

0Authored

0About

2Recommended books

Books Michael Mauboussin recommends, documented so far

Each book appears once; every source record remains linked to its evidence and the canonical book profile.

Investing Risk Capital Allocation

The Most Important Thing

by Howard Marks · 2011

Why this author is included

Howard Marks · Investor and Oaktree co-founder

Documented citation: Mauboussin includes The Most Important Thing in his own recommended reading list.

Own investing and markets reading-list selection.

Documented citation · Recommended

Evidence details

Recommended reading

This source documents the book relationship, but the displayed text is a catalog summary rather than a verbatim quote.

Michael Mauboussin · undated · accessed 2026-10-01

Curated reading list · Own reading list

Rendered original website inspected through its Reading List button; this title is attributed to Howard Marks. The undated list has access date only.

Open source

Amazon Audible Bookshop.orgAffiliate disclosure: We may earn a commission when you buy through some links. Recommendations are included because of the source, not because of the retailer. Details

Science Complex Systems History

Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos

by M. Mitchell Waldrop

Why this author is included

M. Mitchell Waldrop · Science writer

2 source records

Documented citation: Mauboussin includes Waldrop’s Complexity in his own recommended reading list.

Own complexity and systems reading-list selection.

Documented citation · Recommended

Evidence details

Recommended reading

This source documents the book relationship, but the displayed text is a catalog summary rather than a verbatim quote.

Michael Mauboussin · undated · accessed 2026-10-01

Curated reading list · Own reading list

Rendered original list directly inspected. This is Waldrop’s book, not Melanie Mitchell’s different same-title work; no affiliate identifier is borrowed.

Open source

Documented citation: Mauboussin praises Waldrop’s Complexity and includes it on a reading list for his son.

Original discussion of books about the history of ideas. No scientific or investment-return claim is adopted as fact.

Documented citation · Recommended

Evidence details

The Tim Ferriss Show #659

This source documents the book relationship, but the displayed text is a catalog summary rather than a verbatim quote.

Tim Ferriss · 2023-03-03 · accessed 2026-10-01

podcast · Original interview reading advice

Own attributed answer at the discussion of Waldrop and the reading list for his son directly inspected. Distinct original event from the undated own-site list; no verbatim transcript excerpt.

Open source