Allison Schrager

Yet another popular economics book, this time from a retirement/risk person. Unfortunately this tries to push an analogy (financial economics and risk) into areas where it makes no sense, and the author picks pathologically bad examples almost always (i.e. when trying to describe increased range, always picks things which just expand in the downside risk, also shifting the median and mean, rather than just showing increased variance).

I took a risk on purchasing this book. I hedged against this purchase by using a discount coupon to offset the price. Based on my reading of the book and what I got out of it, I may have broken even on my investment of time and money. Some good anecdotes and basic advice but I was expecting a bit more...