This book could have been more succint. It seemed the author was trying to show how "cultured" he is. Too many sidebars and circuitous movie references, none of which significantly moved the story forward.

I did learn some things though, but not nearly enough for what I paid for this on Kindle.

This is the best book on finance that I have ever read. Mihir Desai has an uncanny kmack of drawing parallels between finance, life, and literature.

An incredibly interesting take on finance. I enjoyed the interplay between finance, history, movies and books.

Just beyond my grasp. That's what I kept thinking when reading this book.

Mihir is a brilliant man tying finance to many different disciplines (literature especially). I could picture sitting to him enthralled in a lecture or just watching him at a dinner table speaking ... His mind moves in fascinating angles.

It would help, as prerequisites, if you read the stories he refers to beforehand. He comes from so many angles Pride and Prejudice, the Simpsons, 1984, The Producers, Steph Curry, Merchants of Venice, Robert Morris (the man who was almost Alexander Hamilton)...

This could be more aptly titled "Philosophy of Finance". I wonder who this book was targeted for? The finance part is pretty basic. Maybe someone with a background in Western literature or philosophy who wants to understand finance?

I find this book misleading. The author might have a rich knowledge of literature, history, and philosophy, but he doesn’t know how to incorporate that knowledge with finance.

This book is far from an accessible source of finance. I’ve understood financial principles better when I read a financial textbook.

4.5 stars.

Not economy for dummies, but not something you need a dictionary to understand either. An answer not to the question of how the modern financial system works, but rather why you might want to dive into it, written by someone in love with their subject.

How is this not a super popular book?? I stumbled onto it randomly and it blew me away. It’s interesting, smart, insightful, and truly revolutionary. Read it.

As the title implies, this book attempts to bring together the worlds of finance and humanities. It uses literary and other assorted media references to illustrate particular financial concepts, and argues that finance can be used for the good of humanity, despite the finance's reputation as greedy and evil.

Although I earned my degree in a social science, I find myself working in a finance-related field. I feel pretty ambivalent about my current career, and I hoped that this book might open my eyes to a perspective I hadn't considered. And it did provide me with some new concepts and perspectives, but ultimately, I feel as ambivalent about this book as I do my job. It just didn't convince me the way I had hoped to be convinced.