The author, Dr Prem C. Jain, a professor who has taught at many leading universities in the US, has computed “intrinsic value” of WESCO and Berkshire and given examples of Warren Buffett’s “value + growth” investing as applied to recent investments in Burlington Northern and BYD. He has extensively discussed Berkshire’s insurance (and reinsurance) operations, including Geico’s and General Re’s valuations.

A book review of “Soros: The life and times of a messianic billionaire”.

It is rare to come across a book as timely, well-written and informative as Liaquat Ahamed’s ‘Lords of Finance’.

This is a well-written biography of social psychologist Stanley Milgram, famous for his ‘obedience’ experiments.

This book appears at an appropriate juncture when the credit markets are in the intensive care unit and equity markets have followed. But, according to the author, Harvard financial historian, Niall Ferguson, hostility to financiers at times of crises is a recurrent theme in the history of human civilisation, partly because debtors always outnumber creditors, partly because of the instability that financial crises produces, and partly because finance have always been run by ethnic minorities who have built tight-knit networks of kinship and trust.

This book seeks to bring an understanding of financial instability caused by the inability of central banks to manage the credit creation process.

A book that covers the last two AGMs of Berkshire Hathaway.

A fascinating and well-written page-turner on the life of Warren Buffett.

A well-written book on a legendary economist and his value-investing principles (however unorthodox and heretical they may have been in Keynes’s days).