Finance Book Reviews

Author and economist Ray Keating doles out a lifetime’s worth of insight in The Weekly Economist: 52 Quick Reads to Help You Think Like an Economist, the latest non-fiction work from this prolific author.

Encouraging readers to think more like economists, regardless of experience or expertise in the field, Keating has created an accessible and comprehensive guide to concepts that regularly baffle the average person. He argues that before one can criticize or successfully navigate the world of economics, one must thoroughly understand it, and this book can certainly help that happen.

From intellectual property rights and labor unions […]

With information and recommendations garnered over more than thirty years of practice, author/business advisor Phillip B. Chute has compiled an exhaustive manual for financial investment and planning in Stocks, Bonds & Taxes: A Comprehensive Handbook and Investment Guide for Everybody.

Each chapter of this informative guide contains information about a particular aspect of investing: Equities, Bonds, Mutual Funds, and Other Investments. Each gives a general explanation of the terminology, followed by sections exploring individual investment items, offering Planning Tips, advice on Tax implications, and a look at Compliance matters. For seasoned investors, some of this will be old hat, […]

An expert and educator in the realm of finance, Dr. Anthony M. Criniti IV has created more than two hundred principles by which he believes a serious student of finance may move from theory to practice in The Most Important Lessons in Economics and Finance: A Comprehensive Collection of Time-Tested Principles of Wealth Management.

Criniti makes his intentions clear in Part I, an introductory section in which he defines his terms, which he has chosen carefully: principles, for example, are an attempt to “reflect natural laws” that will endure, as opposed to “rules” that can be changed arbitrarily. The […]

Financial expert Dr. Anthony M. Criniti IV has constructed a highly useful manual for the academic and layman’s study of finance, something that nearly all of us have to deal with, in The Necessity of Finance: An Overview of the Science of Wealth for an Individual, a Group, or an Organization.

Criniti promotes finance not merely as an aspect of economics but as a science in its own right, a “search for a truly better way to perform an action or understand a condition, process, or thing.” Seen in that light, finance explores optimal ways “to manage wealth for […]