How to Speak Money, John Lanchester
How to Speak Money, John Lanchester
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How to Speak Money
What the Money People Say--And What It Really Means

Author: John Lanchester

Narrator: Sean Pratt

Unabridged: 9 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 11/01/2014

Synopsis

To those who don't speak it, the language of money can seem impenetrable and its ideas too complex to grasp. How to Speak Money is acclaimed writer John Lanchester's entertaining and informative attempt to bridge the gap between the money people and the rest of us.

With characteristic wit and candor ("wickedly funny" --Dwight Garner, New York Times), Lanchester shows how the world of finance and economics really works--from the terms and conditions of your personal checking account to the evasions of bankers appearing in front of Congress. How to Speak Money reveals how the language of money is often a tool to conceal and mislead; he explains hundreds of common economic terms, from GDP to the IMF, amortization and securitization to collateralized debt obligation; and he argues that we all need to speak money lest those who do write the financial rules for themselves.

About John Lanchester

John Lanchester is the bestselling author of The Debt to Pleasure, Capital, and other works of fiction and nonfiction. His books, which have been translated into twenty-five languages, have won the Whitbread First Novel Prize, the Hawthornden Prize, and the E. M. Forster Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is a contributing editor to the London Review of Books and a regular contributor to the New Yorker. He lives in London.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Robin on December 28, 2014

If, like me, you both loathe talking about money and high finance -- and are terrified by it -- this is the book for you. In clear, often funny and always insightful ways, writer John Lanchester exposes some of the "bullshit" -- and a lot of the "nonsense" (read the book for the difference) -- in mo......more

Goodreads review by Jeff on September 27, 2014

I received this book for free in exchange for my honest opinion through the Goodreads First Reads program. This book is well written and very informative. The majority of the book is written in a dictionary style where you can find an entry alphabetically and see a "definition" next to it. I put the......more

Goodreads review by Brittany on September 22, 2014

I really learned a lot from this book. If you want complex financial information explained in every-man language, this book is awesome. He does a great job of demonstrating really difficult information in a simple way. I will say that this book requires some focus, it's not a casual read. But it was......more

Goodreads review by Jesse on November 20, 2014

I made a startling discovery while reading this book -- it turns out I already know how to speak money. This would no doubt shock my college economics professors (assuming they still remember me), but apparently over the last 20 years I've picked up a decent understanding of how finance and economic......more

Goodreads review by Richard on April 06, 2015

I'm a great admirer of John's writing, and he's a friend who lives only a few doors away. He has a remarkable knack of explaining the complex in simple language, illustrating his explanations with lots of good stories and quotations. I'm not sure, however, that he expects this book to be read right......more

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