as an economic graduate I expect to understand everything in this book, but maybe I set my bar too high because some part feels like rocket science. this book is brilliant but i'm too lazy to write a proper review, so here's a few interesting notes from the book:p. 118...a part of my brain follow...
According to conventional wisdom an educated person will understand literature, art, languages and maybe even science. Understanding finance is not necessary. This according to Lanchester is curious, particularly as finance and economics are the very things that have have a huge impact on our l...
John Lanchester has, I believe, written four novels to date, all markedly different from each other in tone, and three of them ('The Debt to Pleasure', 'Capital' and this one) would all rank among my all time favourites. 'Fragrant Harbour' is a superb novel spanning seventy years in the history o...
For two years before and after the 1948 Communist Revolution, David Kidd lived in Peking, where he married the daughter of an aristocratic Chinese family. "I used to hope," he writes, "that some bright young scholar on a research grant would write about us and our Chinese friends before it was to...
The water and power supplies worked, buses and trams ran, streets were clean, shops and schools were open, and people had returned from China, which had gone back to civil war. Chung King 21 vi 1946 Dear Tom, ...
Suburban mediocrity. A culture that openly worships the average. A society which allows the idea of the elite to exist only in relation to sport. A culture of fat people, lazy people, people who watch reality television, people who aren’t interested in anything except celebrity, people who eat in...