Adam Smith’s book is presented with the virtuoso manner of the genre’s master. It’s steeped in sparkling, intelligent, yet biting humor; at the same time it reads with the tension typical only of classic detective stories and adventure novels. The audiobook delights with the most unexpected and thrilling stories—and, along with that, the listener becomes deeply involved in the circle of truly important problems of the stock exchange and in the thinking processes of the crowd.
The harder it is to tear oneself away from listening, the more “qualified” the reader is in the field of finance. A beginner, by contrast, is guaranteed to lose sleep for a couple of nights and, literally, “swallow” this audiobook. A serious financier, on the other hand, will be doomed to study the material again and again, seeing for themselves more and more brand-new, original ideas—sometimes even smelling openly of outright adventurism. A psychologist or a politician will love this book immediately, after a deep and thorough examination with bias—because it’s not just about the stock exchange, but, to a greater extent, about the behavior of the crowd.