Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk - Brossura

Bernstein, Peter L.

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ISBN 10: 0471295639 ISBN 13: 9780471295631

Casa editrice: John Wiley & Sons Inc, 1998

Riassunto

The winner of the Booz Allen Business Book Award for 1997, this best-selling volume analyzes the history of risk in relation to its applications in the fields of business and finance. Reprint. 100,000 first printing. $75,000 ad/promo.

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Recensione:

AGAINST THE GODS appeared in the "Washington Is Also Reading..." section of The Washington Post Book World. The book is described as, "A comprehensive history of man's efforts to understand risk and probability, from ancient gamblers in Greece to modern chaos theory."-The Washington Post Book World, September 20, 1998

"I must say that I enjoyed the book, it was written in a light-hearted manner".(Money Matters, April 2001)
 
No. 7 bestseller in 'Risk'(erivativesreview.com, December 2001)

L'autore:

PETER L. BERNSTEIN is President of Peter L. Bernstein, Inc., economic consultants to institutional advisors and corporations. His semimonthly analysis of the capital markets and the real economy, Economics and Portfolio Strategy, is read by managers and owners of investments totaling over one trillion dollars. Mr. Bernstein is the author of many articles in the professional and popular press, as well as six books in economics and finance, including the bestselling Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street. He is the coeditor of Investment Management (Wiley), and was the first editor of The Journal of Portfolio Management.

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• Editore: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0471295639
• ISBN 13: 9780471295631
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 288