The Wisdom of Finance
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The Wisdom of Finance

Mihir A Desai

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Index

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

A

adverse selection, 27–29
Aeschylus, 155
Agamemnon (Aeschylus), 155, 158
agency theory. See principal-agent problem
alpha, 71–73
alternative assets industry, 73–74
American Airlines, bankruptcy, 9, 151–52, 156–60
American Psycho (Ellis), 165
annuities, 25–29
AOL–Time Warner merger, 107–112
Apple, 77–78, 83
Archimedes, 124
Aristotle, 42, 55–56
Arnolfini Portrait, The (van Eyck), 97 (illus.), 103
Arpey, Gerard, 151–52, 154–59
Art Tatum Trio, 98
asset pricing, 7–9
asshole theory of finance, 168–70
assortative mating, 106
attribution errors, 168–70
Auden, W. H., 123
Austen, Jane, 7, 35, 35 (illus.)

B

Bachelier, Louis, 39–40
Bancroft, Anne, 95–96
bankruptcy, 8–9
“Bartleby, the Scrivener” (Melville), 46–48
Bellow, Saul, 48–49, 128, 137
Bentham, Jeremy, 121–23, 140
Berger, Harry, Jr., 123
Berryman, John, 33
Bessemer Venture Partners, 147
beta. See capital asset pricing model
Bewkes, Jeff, 108
Bhagavad Gita, 155
Big Short, The (film), 97
Book of Matthew, 60
Brooks, Mel, 8, 75, 91–96
Brown, Robert, Brownian motion, 38–40
Buck v. Bell (1927), 21
Buffett, Warren, 22
Burroughs, John, 117
Byrne, David, 13–14

C

capital asset pricing model, xi, 53–56

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