Whoops!
A novelist explains the 2008 crash, from subprime loans to bailouts, in plain language and with plenty of jokes.
John Lanchester’s account of the 2008 financial crisis, written for readers who never studied finance. He explains how mortgages, banks and derivatives became tangled together, why the risk models failed, and how the bill landed on taxpayers. Lanchester is a novelist, and the book is funny as well as clear about how the crash happened and who paid for it.
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Dorothy Rowe
So Whoops! is a book everyone should read. Lanchester demonstrates that out there in the real world we go on and on making these mistakes because we don’t understand ourselves.
Interview · May 2010
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