Speeches and Writings by Charlie Munger

Letters to Shareholders and Other Writings

2009

How We Can Restore Confidence

2001

The Great Financial Scandal of 2003

1997-present

Letters to Wesco Shareholders

5/30/89

Resignation letter from the U.S. League of Savings Institutions

Speeches

6/21/04

Dueling Views of Reform (article in the San Francisco Chronicle about Munger's comments at Stanford Law School Directors College)

10/3/03

Academic Economics: Strengths and Faults After Considering Interdisciplinary Needs (my column about this speech is Munger Goes Mental, 6/4/04)

8/21/02

Munger on Human Misjudgments

1994

A Lesson on Elementary, Worldly Wisdom as it Relates to Investment Management & Business (lecture at USC business school)

On Philanthropy

11/10/00

Talk of Charles T. Munger to Breakfast Meeting of the Philanthropy Round Table

3/99

Master's Class: Berkshire Hathaway's vice chairman shreds the conventional wisdom on foundation investing

10/14/98

The Investment Practices of Charitable Foundations

Other

3/03

The Munger Network of Mental Models (paper by Rich Rockwood)

Books About Munger

2009

How We Can Restore Confidence by Charles T. Munger

2008

Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger by Peter Bevelin

2008

Poor Charlie's Almanack edited by Peter D. Kaufman

2003

Damn Right: Behind the Scenes with Berkshire Hathaway Billionaire Charlie Munger by Janet Lowe

2003

Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger by Peter Bevelin

Munger's Book Recommendations (most recent at the top)

Deep Simplicity by John Gribbin

F.I.A.S.C.O.: The Inside Story of a Wall Street Trader by Frank Partnoy

Ice Age by John & Mary Gribbin

How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It by Arthur Herman

Models of My Life by Herb Simon

A Matter of Degrees by Gino Segre

Andrew Carnegie by Joseph Frazier Wall

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond

The Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Living Within Limits: Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos by Garrett Hardin

The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow

The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor by David S. Landes

The Warren Buffett Portfolio by Robert Hagstrom

Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters by Matt Ridley

Getting It Done: How to Lead When You're Not in Charge by Roger Fisher and Alan Sharp

Three Scientists and Their Gods by Robert Wright

Only the Paranoid Survive by Andy Grove