Books by Charles Mackay
“It leads off with three classic financial booms and busts – tulip mania in Holland, the Mississippi scheme in 18th century France, and the South Sea Bubble. MacKay was a journalist with a fine tabloid style, and he writes it all up very entertainingly. He gets the eyewitness quotes and he finds the human foibles.” Read more...
The best books on Financial Speculation
John Gapper, Journalist
Interviews where books by Charles Mackay were recommended
The best books on Financial Speculation, recommended by John Gapper
We all have a bit of the rogue trader in us. So says the chief business commentator of the FT, who tells us about the greed, vanity and weakness that can lead to financial disaster. He picks the best books on financial speculation.
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Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
by Charles Mackay -
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Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases
by Daniel Kahneman & Paul Slovic and Amos Tversky -
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How We Know What Isn’t So
by Thomas Gilovich -
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The Winner’s Curse
by Richard Thaler -
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Predictably Irrational
by Dan Ariely
The best books on Decision-Making, recommended by Jonah Lehrer
The best books on Decision-Making, recommended by Jonah Lehrer
Behavioural economics is a very new field, but its insights have huge ramifications for our daily lives, including life-or-death decisions. Here, author Jonah Lehrer talks us through some of its most important works.
