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Recommended Readings

1. Birdthistle, William A. Empire of the Fund. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.

2. Bogle, John C. The Little Book of Common Sense Investing. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2017.

3. Bogle, John C. The Clash of the Cultures. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2012.

4. Clifford, Steven. The CEO Pay Machine. New York: Penguin Random House LLC, 2017.

5. Eavis, Peter. “It’s Never Been Easier to Be the Boss.” The New York Times, Sunday Business Section, May 26, 2019, pages 4-6.

6. Choate, Natalie B. Life and Death Planning for Retirement Benefits. Boston: Ataxplan Publications, 2018.

7. Epstein, Joseph. The Seven Deadly Sins: Envy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

8. Friedman, Ph.D., Howard S. and Martin, Ph.D., Leslie R. The Longevity Project. New York: Hudson Street Press, 2011.

9. Graham, Benjamin. The Intelligent Investor. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2006.

10. Levitin, Daniel J. The Organized Mind. New York: Penguin Random House LLC, 2014.

11. Kahneman, Daniel. Thinking, Fast and Slow. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.

12. “Valuation Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies” Koller, Goedhart, Wessels. 2015.

The CEO Pay Machine is former CEO Steven Clifford’s thorough and shocking explanation of the ‘machine’–how it works, how its parts interact, and how every step pushes CEO pay to higher levels.
Over the course of his sixty-year career in the mutual fund industry, Vanguard Group founder John C. Bogle has witnessed a massive shift in the culture of the financial sector.