John Lanchester
Books by John Lanchester
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Best Investing Books for Beginners
John Kay, Economist
Whoops! Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay
by John Lanchester
It’s extremely readable and a lot of it is about how we are incredibly bad at assessing risk and probability. You cannot eradicate risk, risk is what life is. Lanchester demonstrates that out there in the real world we go on and on making the same mistakes because we don’t understand ourselves.
Interviews with John Lanchester
The best books on Understanding High Finance, recommended by John Lanchester
Understanding finance is key to understanding how the world works, but many people know very little about it. Journalist John Lanchester picks five accessible books to bring the layperson up to speed.
Interviews where books by John Lanchester were recommended
The best books on Lying, recommended by Dorothy Rowe
All our behaviour is determined not by what happens to us, but how we interpret what happens to us, says the psychologist and bestselling author. And we don’t always tell ourselves the truth. Dorothy Rowe chooses the best books on lying.
Best Investing Books for Beginners, recommended by John Kay
Investing can seem scary if you’ve never done it before but it is, in fact, fairly straightforward. Economist John Kay recommends some investing books for beginners.