An innovative guide that identifies what distinguishes the best financial risk takers from the rest From 1987 to 1992, a small group of Wall Street quants invented an entirely new way of managing risk to maximize success: risk management for risk-takers. This is the secret that lets tiny quantitative edges create hedge fund billionaires, and defines the powerful modern global ...(展开全部)

Justin Fox’s The Myth of the Rational Market tells the story of how we came to believe that financial markets knew best, and how that belief steered us wrong. Chronicling the rise and fall of efficient market theory and its century-long role in the making of the modern financial industry, the book is both history and intellectual whodunit. It brings to life the people and ideas...(展开全部)

Wall Street is the stuff of legend and a source of nightmares, a force so powerful in American society--and, indeed, in world economics and culture--that it has become an almost universal symbol of both the highest aspirations of commercial success and the basest impulses of greed and deception. How did such a small, concentrated pocket of lower Manhattan came to have such enor...(展开全部)

"Illuminating...Combines tales of flamboyant promoters...with wry observations about the nature of man and markets." - New York Times Leon Levy was a legendary investor, a founder of Oppenheimer Funds and the guiding force behind Oppenheimer as well as several other investment ventures. Now, with Wall Street stuck in a prolonged rut, it's appropriate to turn for insights to a...(展开全部)

The roots of the mortgage bubble and the story of the Wall Street collapse-and the government's unprecedented response-from our most trusted business journalist. The End of Wall Street is a blow-by-blow account of America's biggest financial collapse since the Great Depression. Drawing on 180 interviews, including sit-downs with top government officials and Wall Street CE...(展开全部)

The Soviet Union killed over 600,000 whales in the twentieth century, many of them illegally and secretly. That catch helped bring many whale species to near extinction by the 1970s, and the impacts of this loss of life still ripple through today’s oceans. In this new account, based on formerly secret Soviet archives and interviews with ex-whalers, environmental historian Ryan ...(展开全部)

Taking English culture as its representative sample, The Secret History of Domesticity asks how the modern notion of the public-private relation emerged in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Treating that relation as a crucial instance of the modern division of knowledge, Michael McKeon narrates its pre-history along with that of its essential component, domesticity. T...(展开全部)

本杰明·格雷厄姆（1894—1976），华尔街的传奇人物，被称为“现代证券之父”，著有《证券分析》和《聪明的投资者》。他和戴维·多德合著作的《证券分析》迄今已出了第五版，有些学者将它奉为“华尔街圣经”。他的投资者哲学——基本分析法和“风险缓冲带”为沃伦·巴菲特、马里奥·加贝利、约翰·鲍戈尔等一大批证券投资者专家所推崇。为了表彰他在证券分析领域的卓越建树，美国哥伦比亚大学商学院已设立了永久的“格雷厄姆/多德教授讲座”。