{"id":11508,"count":24,"description":"Finance makes the world go around, so it's important to understand at least the very basics. We have two introductory interviews on finance: one is an <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/best-books\/understanding-finance-john-lanchester\/\">\u2018understanding high finance\u2019 reading list<\/a> with journalist and novelist John Lanchester, who taught himself all about it. The other is with <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/best-books\/finance-andrew-lo\/\">Andrew Lo<\/a>, a leading light in the field and a professor who teaches finance at MIT.\r\n\r\nBeyond those, Jason Zweig takes us through his <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/best-books\/jason-zweig-on-personal-finance\/\">best books on personal finance<\/a> and Burton Malkiel chooses his <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/best-books\/investing-burton-malkiel\/\">best books on investing<\/a>. Marc Faber chooses his <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/best-books\/marc-faber-on-investment\/\">best books on investment<\/a>. James Owen Weatherall chooses his top books on <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/best-books\/james-owen-weatherall-on-physics-and-financial-markets\/\">physics and financial markets<\/a> and Jonathan Gruber chooses his <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/best-books\/jonathan-gruber-on-public-finance\/\">best books on public finance<\/a>. Gary Gorton looks at <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/best-books\/gary-gorton-on-financial-crises\/\">financial crises<\/a>, and Charles Morris at <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/best-books\/charles-morris-on-crashes\/\">crashes<\/a>.\r\n\r\nA number of finance books are recommended more than once. Andrew Lo and Charles Morris both choose <em>This Time It\u2019s Different\u00ad <\/em>by Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff. Burton Malkiel and Jason Zweig both recommend <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/book\/common-sense-mutual-funds-by-john-c-bogle\/\"><em>Common Sense on Mutual Funds <\/em>by John C Bogle<\/a>. Zweig and John Lanchester both recommend <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/book\/against-gods-by-peter-l-bernstein\/\"><em>Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk <\/em>by Peter Bernstein<\/a> as a great introduction to the history of how the mastering of probability helped to transform human society. Morris and Faber both choose<a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/book\/manias-panics-and-crashes-history-financial-crises-by-charles-kindleberger\/\"> <em>Manias Panics Crashes: A history of Financial Crashes <\/em>by Charles P Kindleberger<\/a>.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/economics-business-and-investing\/how-to-invest\/\">How to Invest<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/economics-business-and-investing\/financial-crisis\/\">Financial Crises<\/a>","link":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/economics\/finance\/","name":"Finance","slug":"finance","taxonomy":"category","parent":5306,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/11508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/5306"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=11508"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book?categories=11508"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books_like_this?categories=11508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}