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Mihir A Desai
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Ingeniería generalIndex
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
David Boren on, 151
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
automatic stay, 148
“discharge” of debt, 146
history of American law on, 145–46
moral questions, 150–52, 154, 160
opportunity for rebirth, 147
orderly bankruptcy, 148–49
“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
Critic, The (film), 93
relationship with Anne Bancroft, 95–96
relationship with Gene Wilder, 94
relationship with mother, 93
relationship with Sid Caesar, 94
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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