The Myth of the Rational Market
Subtitle: a history of risk, reward, and delusion on Wall Street
Publisher: Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Published: April 8, 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780060598990
Subjects: Investment Analysis; Stocks; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Business/Economics; Investments & Securities - General; Business & Economics / Investments & Securities; Economic History; Economics - Theory
Table of contents: title: Introduction : It had been working so exceptionally well; title: Early days.; title: Irving Fisher loses his briefcase, and then his fortune; title: A random walk from Fred Macaulay to Holbrook Working; title: The rise of the rational market.; title: Harry Markowitz brings statistical man to the stock market; title: A random walk from Paul Samuelson to Paul Samuelson; title: Modigliani and Miller arrive at a simplifying assumption; title: Gene Fama makes the best proposition in economics; title: The conquest of Wall Street.; title: Jack Bogle takes on the performance cult (and wins); title: Fischer Black chooses to focus on the probable; title: Michael Jensen gets corporations to obey the market; title: The challenge.; title: Dick Thaler gives economic man a personality; title: Bob Shiller points out the most remarkable error; title: Beating the market with Warren Buffett and Ed Thorp; title: Alan Greenspan stops a random plunge down Wall Street; title: The fall.; title: Andrei Shleifer moves beyond rabbi economics; title: Mike Jensen changes his mind about the corporation; title: Gene Fama and Dick Thaler knock each other out; title: Epilogue : The anatomy of a financial crisis