The Wisdom of Finance

Mihir A Desai

• Editorial: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Año: 2017
• ISBN:
  9780544911208
• Categoría: Tecnología e ingeniería
• Categoría: Ingeniería general

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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

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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