Fatal Numbers: Why Count on Chance
Enzensberger cleverly helps us understand the fine line between fact and fiction when it comes to the movements in financial markets by revealing that economic fundamentals are of limited value: in the end, prices and market direction are determined by financial speculation. --Sanford L. Herzfeld, Director and Senior Vice President, David William Securities... to say that Enzensberger has reinvented the essay would hardly be an exaggeration; he has customised the form with a gusto verging on virtuosity ... --The Independent... one of Germany's leading public intellectuals ... Enzensberger is the most important postwar writer you have never read ... --London Review of Books