ISBN10: 0060598999, ISBN13: 9780060598990, [publisher: Harper Business.] Hardcover The myth of the rational market : Wall Street's impossible quest for predictable markets Harper Business. New York. 2009. 24 cm. xvi, 382 p. Encuadernación en tapa dura de editorial con sobrecubierta ilustrada. Idioma Inglés. Originally published in hardback: 2009. Includes bibliographical references (pages 334-370) and index. Justin Fox. [History of risk, reward, and delusion on Wall Street ][History of Wall Street ]. Includes bibliographical references (p. [334]-370) and index. Contents 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 ...
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ISBN10: 0060598999, ISBN13: 9780060598990, [publisher: Harper Business 2009] Hardcover 8vo. Hardcover in d/w. 382pp. Very good. Index. Chronicling the rise and fall of the efficient market theory and the century-long making of the modern financial industry, Justin Fox's "The Myth of the Rational Market" is as much an intellectual whodunit as a cultural history of the perils and possibilities of risk. The book brings to life the people and ideas that forged modern finance and investing, from the formative days of Wall Street through the Great Depression and into the financial calamity of today. It's a tale that features professors who made and lost fortunes, battled fiercely over ideas, beat the house in blackjack, wrote bestselling books, and played major roles on the world stage. It's also a tale of Wall Street's evolution, the power of the market to generate wealth and wreak havoc, and free market capitalism's war with itself. The efficient market hypothesis - long part of academic folklore but codified in the 1960s at the University of Chicago - has evolved into a powerful myth. It has been the maker and loser of fortunes, the driver of trillions of dollars, the inspiration for index funds and vast new derivatives markets, and the guidepost for thousands of careers. The theory holds that the market is always right, and that the decisions of millions of rational investors, all acting on information to outsmart one another, always ...