Celebrity37 booksCharles Koch
Charles Koch is an American billionaire businessman and philanthropist who served as the chairman and CEO of Koch Industries for over five decades. Under his leadership, the family-owned conglomerate grew from a regional oil firm into one of the largest private companies in the United States, spanning energy, chemicals, and consumer products. A prominent libertarian thinker, he co-developed the Market-Based Management framework and has poured billions into free-market think tanks, educational initiatives, and criminal justice reform.
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Books Charles Koch recommends
A curated library compiled from public recommendations, interviews and posts.
Personal Knowledge
Human Action
Why Wages Rise
Frames of Mind
The Politics Industry
The Bonfire of the Vanities
In Pursuit
America's War for the Greater Middle East
The Law
How the West Grew Rich
The Hunt for Red October
State of Fear
As I Lay Dying
The Science of Liberty
The Survivor
The Happiness Hypothesis
The Fatal Conceit
The Road to Serfdom
The Sun Also Rises
Modern Times
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
National Economic Planning
Lonesome Dove
Bureaucracy
The Upright Thinkers
Heaven on Earth
The Republic of Science
Conjectures and Refutations
The Godfather
The Evolution of Everything
The Forgotten Man
A Conflict of Visions
Knowledge And Decisions
Brideshead Revisited
A Man in Full
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Law, Legislation and Liberty
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