as an economic graduate I expect to understand everything in this book, but maybe I set my bar too high because some part feels like rocket science. this book is brilliant but i'm too lazy to write a proper review, so here's a few interesting notes from the book:p. 118...a part of my brain follow...
According to conventional wisdom an educated person will understand literature, art, languages and maybe even science. Understanding finance is not necessary. This according to Lanchester is curious, particularly as finance and economics are the very things that have have a huge impact on our l...
John Lanchester has, I believe, written four novels to date, all markedly different from each other in tone, and three of them ('The Debt to Pleasure', 'Capital' and this one) would all rank among my all time favourites. 'Fragrant Harbour' is a superb novel spanning seventy years in the history o...