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Lecturing Birds on Flying: Can Mathematical Theories Destroy the Financial Markets?

Pablo Triana

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Praise for Lecturing Birds On Flying "Finally, a book taking a critical look at quantitative finance models, illuminating both their flawed fantasy assumptions as well as the uncritical use of such models on Wall Street, in many cases, leading to billion dollar losses. Pablo Triana knows both the financial industry and the academic community fro...more

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1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four

George Orwell

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Wait Until Spring, Bandini

John Fante

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Fiction. John Fante recalls his first novel, recently republished by Black Sparrow Press: "Now that I am an old man I cannot look back upon WAIT UNTIL SPRING, BANDINI without losing its trail in the past. Sometimes, lying in bed at night, a phrase or a paragraph or a character from an early work will mesmerize me and in a half dream I will ent...more

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Atlas Shrugged

Ayn Rand

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At last, Ayn Rand's masterpiece is available to her millions of loyal readers in trade paperback. With this acclaimed work and its immortal query, "Who is John Galt?", Ayn Rand found the perfect artistic form to express her vision of existence. Atlas Shrugged made Rand not only one of the most popular novelists of the century, but one of its most...more

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Infectious Greed: How Deceit and Risk Corrupted the Financial Markets

Frank Partnoy

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“Readers are unlikely to find a more readable explanation of how the financial system has changed since the 1980s and who came unstuck.” —Financial Times The still-unfolding financial story is terrifying. One by one, major corporations such as Enron, Global Crossing, and WorldCom are imploding all around us, prey to a greed-driven culture and...more

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Fiasco: The Inside Story of a Wall Street Trader

Frank Partnoy

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FIASCO is the shocking story of one man's education in the jungles of Wall Street. As a young derivatives salesman at Morgan Stanley, Frank Partnoy learned to buy and sell billions of dollars worth of securities that were so complex many traders themselves didn't understand them. In his behind-the-scenes look at the trading floor and the offices of...more

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Irrational Exuberance

Robert J. Shiller

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CNBC, day trading, The Motley Fool, Silicon Investor. Not since the 1920s has there been such an intense fascination with the US stock market. For an increasing number of people, logging onto Yahoo finance is a habit more precious than that morning cup of coffee (as thousands of SBUX and YHOO shareholders know too well). Yet while the market contin...more

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