The myth of the rational market : a history of risk, reward, and delusion on Wall Street / Justin Fox.
2009
332.6401 F792m 2009
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Title
The myth of the rational market : a history of risk, reward, and delusion on Wall Street / Justin Fox.
Author
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780060598990
0060598999
0060598999
Imprint
New York : Harper Business, c2009.
Language
English
Description
xvi, 382 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
332.6401 F792m 2009
System Control No.
(OCoLC)149167843
(OCoLC)149167843
(OCoLC)149167843
Summary
Examines the rise and fall of the efficient markets theory, the development of modern finance, and the rise of behavioral economics, in an account that draws on interviews with top thinkers while demystifying the ideas that forged the modern market.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [334]-370) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Introduction: It had been working so exceptionally well
Early days: Irving Fisher loses his briefcase, and then his fortune ; A random walk from Fred Macaulay to Holbrook Working
The rise of the rational market: Harry Markowitz brings statistical man to the stock market ; A random walk from Paul Samuelson to Paul Samuelson ; Modigliani and Miller arrive at a simplifying assumption ; Gene Fama makes the best proposition in economics
The conquest of Wall Street: Jack Bogle takes on the performance cult (and wins) ; Fischer Black chooses to focus on the probably ; Michael Jensen gets corporations to obey the market
The challenge: Dick Thaler gives economic man a personality ; Bob Shiller points out the most remarkable error ; Beating the market with Warren Buffett and Ed Thorp ; Alan Greenspan stops a random plunge down Wall Street
The fall: Andrei Shleifer moves beyond rabbi economics ; Mike Jensen changes his mind about the corporation ; Gene Fama and Dick Thaler knock each other out
The anatomy of a financial crisis.
Early days: Irving Fisher loses his briefcase, and then his fortune ; A random walk from Fred Macaulay to Holbrook Working
The rise of the rational market: Harry Markowitz brings statistical man to the stock market ; A random walk from Paul Samuelson to Paul Samuelson ; Modigliani and Miller arrive at a simplifying assumption ; Gene Fama makes the best proposition in economics
The conquest of Wall Street: Jack Bogle takes on the performance cult (and wins) ; Fischer Black chooses to focus on the probably ; Michael Jensen gets corporations to obey the market
The challenge: Dick Thaler gives economic man a personality ; Bob Shiller points out the most remarkable error ; Beating the market with Warren Buffett and Ed Thorp ; Alan Greenspan stops a random plunge down Wall Street
The fall: Andrei Shleifer moves beyond rabbi economics ; Mike Jensen changes his mind about the corporation ; Gene Fama and Dick Thaler knock each other out
The anatomy of a financial crisis.
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