Holiday Readings to Close out 2024 

Pivotal180’s Holiday Readings to Close out 2024 

With the holidays approaching fast, here’s a list of books covering the fundamentals, the award-conscious and hot topics in project finance.

FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year 2024

A mix of longlisted and shortlisted books covering mining, shareholder value and a former Citibank trader chronicling the trading floor drama. “The Trading Game” could be a good option for those seeking a new adventure after wrapping up “Industry” earlier this year.

• The War Below (Ernest Scheyder)
• The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century (John Kay)
• The Trading Game (Gary Stevenson)

McKinsey 2024 annual book recommendations

• How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World (Deb Chachra)
• Anatomy of a Breakthrough: How to Get Unstuck When It Matters Most (Adam Alter)
• The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works (Helen Czerski)

ChatGPT

It is clear ChatGPT has a preference for the textbook and academic approach to project finance. In its defense, we went light on the prompting.

• Principles of Project Finance (E.R. Yescombe)
• Project Finance in Theory and Practice (Stefano Gatti)
• The Law and Business of International Project Finance (Scott L. Hoffman)

For the holiday party conversations

The second edition of “Renewables theory and practice” was released in October, with dedicated sections to financing energy storage and hydrogen projects. If this fails as a conversation starter, we recommend anything nuclear, AI or data center related.

• Renewables theory and practice 2nd edition (Santosh Raikar & Seabron Adamson)
• Power to Save the World: The Truth About Nuclear Energy (Gwyneth Cravens)
• Data Centers of the Future (Jon Lin & Gary Aitkenhead)
• The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness (Morgan Housel)

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