Review: Gambling with Other People’s Money: How Perverse Incentives Caused the Financial Crisis

Gambling with Other People’s Money: How Perverse Incentives Caused the Financial Crisis by Russ Roberts
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

A great Essay/Book (<100 pages) with a different and sound perspective on the root-causes of the financial 2008 crisis.

I really liked the clarity, rhythm and conciseness of the arguments, presenting them in a simple and to the point approach, instead of prolonging them to exhaustion as some authors do without any added- value.

Do recommend its reading!


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Review: The Slaughterman’s Daughter: The Avenging of Mende Speismann at the Hands of Her Sister Fanny

The Slaughterman’s Daughter: The Avenging of Mende Speismann at the Hands of Her Sister Fanny by Yaniv Iczkovits
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

A romance that was recommended in a 2020 reading list (from the Economist if not mistaken) that I found relative interesting.

The book navigates the reader in several different related and character based stories that then converge in 1 and has the merit to portray an era, reality and the diverse social classes, based on religion/ status/education/national diversity, on the Czar's Russia empire that I was far from familiar.

After reading it I can recognize the merits of the book, but it is far from being on my curated reading list.

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