Against the Gods

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• How to Think About the Stock Market

  Are stocks overvalued? Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan raised the issue most famously in December 1996 when he said he was worried about “irrational exuberance” in the stock market. 1 At that time, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, 2 th ... (read full critics)

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  This book was named The Best Business Book of the Year in 1998 by Booze Allen Hamilton.

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  Oxford said on Jun 17, 2007 | Add your feedback

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  The book despite it’s “eye catching” title isn’t about religion or faith but rather is a book on the “history” of the development of risk management. It began with the telling of the invention of mathematics, then shifted to the discovery of probabilities and statistics, then to the conceptualizatio ... (continue)

  The book despite it’s “eye catching” title isn’t about religion or faith but rather is a book on the “history” of the development of risk management. It began with the telling of the invention of mathematics, then shifted to the discovery of probabilities and statistics, then to the conceptualization of the idea of risk, and finally to the modern development of risk management. The process by which Peter Bernstein tells the history of risk management is through the introductions of the key concepts in risk management (such as probability theory, normal distribution, variance etc) by way of meeting the personalities behind the “creation” of such concepts. In this sense, the book feels like an amalgam of biographies of “eccentric” but otherwise pretty interesting mathematicians. Though the book is about mathematics, surprisingly, the book seldom talks about numbers. Instead, the book delves almost exclusively on the theoretical concepts. In fact, the discussions on the theoretical concepts usually turned profoundly philosophical in nature. Because of that, I find the book not only interesting to read but enlightening as well.

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  Atlas said on Aug 3, 2009 | Add your feedback

• Difficult to follow, trying hard~~

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  Vincent Yip said on May 2, 2008 | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Paperback 400 Pages
• Edition: New Ed
• ISBN-10: 0471295639
• ISBN-13: 9780471295631
• Publisher: Wiley
• Pub date: Aug 31, 1998
• Dimensions: 1484 mm x 968 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Hardcover and Audio Cassette
• In other languages: other languages Libri Italiani

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