Fathom’s book club meets every few weeks to discuss a book related to economics that has been in the limelight. The latest three books — all touching in different ways on the theme of subjectivity — prompted vigorous debate about lies in public life, why huge projects flounder and personality types at work. Here are the books, and what different Fathom economists have taken from each discussion. We start with Alex Edmans’s take on untruths, as we were lucky enough to hear from him in person at a Fathom training day…

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