Street Smarts

From a naive childhood in Demopolis, Alabama, to the co-founding of the Quantum Fund, Jim Rogers looks back on a life spent in the markets and on the road. He describes his student years at Yale and Oxford, where he coxed the crew, his arrival on Wall Street in the mid-1960s and the years he spent helping to run a hedge fund. Rogers claims the era of Wall Street, when finance drove a quarter of American growth, is over, and that the coming economy belongs to those who make things such as food, energy and goods. He also explains why he expects Asia to lead this century while America and the European Union decline.

It appears on a reading list Marvin Liao of 500 Startups shared in a Book-Talk interview, mixing business titles with fiction.