praise for FISCHER BLACK AND THE REVOLUTIONARY IDEA OF FINANCE
’The story of Fischer Black. . . . is remarkable both because of the creativity of the man and because of the revolution he brought to Wall Street. . . . Mehrling’s book is fascinating.’
FINANCIAL TIMES
’A fascinating history of things we take for granted in our everyday financial lives.’
THE NEW YORK TIMES
’Mehrling’s book is essential reading for anyone interested in the development of modern finance or the life of an idiosyncratic creative genius.’
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
’Fischer Black was more than a vital force in the development of finance theory. He was also a character. Perry Mehrling has captured both sides of the picture: the evolution of thinking about the pricing of risk and time, as well as the thinkers, especially this fascinating eccentric, who worked it out.’
ROBERT M. SOWLO , Nobel laureate and Institute Professor of Economics, Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
’Although I worked closely with Fischer for nine years at Goldman Sachs and clearly recognized both his genius and the breadth and originality of his ideas, until I read this book, I had only the vaguest grasp of the source of his inspiration and no understanding at all of the source of his many idiosyncrasies.’
BOB LITTERMAN , Partner, Kepos Capital
’Perry Mehrling has done a remarkable job of tracing the intellectual and personal development of one of the most original and complex thinkers of our generation. Fischer Black deserved it: a charming and brilliant book about a charming and brilliant man.’
ROBERT E. LUCAS JR., Nobel laureate and Professor of Economics, The University of Chicago
Innehållsförteckning
Acknowledgments ixForeword xv
Preface xxi
Prologue The Price of Risk 1
ONE Thou Living Ray of Intellectual Fire 23
TWO An Idea in the Rough 49
THREE Some Kind of an Education 73
FOUR Living Up to the Model 99
FIVE Tortuous Economic Intuition 119
SIX The Money Wars 139
SEVEN Global Reach 165
EIGHT Stagflation 189
NINE Changing Fields 215
TEN What Do Traders Do? 231
ELEVEN Exploring General Equilibrium 255
Epilogue Nothing Is Constant 283
Appendix A A Financial Notes Chronology 299
Appendix B A Newsletter Chronology 301
Notes 303
References 327
Index 355
Om författaren
PERRY MEHRLING is Professor of Economics at Barnard College of Columbia University. He holds a Ph D from Harvard University and is the author of The Money Interest and the Public Interest: American Monetary Thought, 1920 1970, and The New Lombard Street: How the Fed became the Dealer of Last Resort. Dr. Mehrling’s specialty is the study of financial theory and the history of economics.Fler e-böcker från samma författare (r) / Redaktör
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