Investing: The Last Liberal Art

Robert Hagstrom's big idea — that the sharpest investors borrow mental models from biology, physics, and philosophy — makes for a genuinely fresh, well-crafted read. Critics from The New Yorker to Library Journal were won over, even if one academic reviewer wished it doubled as more of a step-by-step method. It's less a how-to than a way of thinking, and a good one.