Bash Q.

More History Than Revelation

Revisado: 11-10-16

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I have great respect for Robert J. Shiller. His Yale lectures gave me greater understanding and entirely new respect and perspective on our financial systems. This was not a bad book. But it was not the book I was expecting. There's a lot of very interesting history on some of the biggest financial scandals of the last century. There's some roughly explained concepts of human and social psychology. All interesting enough. But I felt it was greatly lacking in offering solutions to the problems it outlined. Lots of examples of things that were wrong. Some examples of people that made changes for the good. But as for practical advice for us, the general public for whom the book is supposed to help, it boiled down to... educate yourself.

I guess based on the critical reviews I was expecting a revelation and just got a, albeit interesting but not terribly profound, history lesson.

Also as a technical criticism, the reader's voice was easily tuned out and at times, particularly in the beginning, he sounded almost robotic.

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