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  • The Illusion of Control

    Why Financial Crises Happen, and What We Can (and Can't) Do About It

    by Jon Danielsson ...
    A challenge to the conventional wisdom surrounding financial risk, providing insight into why easy solutions to control the financial system are doomed to failFinance plays a key role in the prosperity of the modern world—but it also brings grave dangers. We seek to manage those threats with a vast array of sophisticated mathematical tools and techniques of financial risk management. Too often, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Financial Risk Forecasting

    The Theory and Practice of Forecasting Market Risk with Implementation in R and Matlab

    by Jon Danielsson ...
    Series Book 588 - The Wiley Finance Series
    Financial Risk Forecasting is a complete introduction to practical quantitative risk management, with a focus on market risk. Derived from the authors teaching notes and years spent training practitioners in risk management techniques, it brings together the three key disciplines of finance, statistics and modeling (programming), to provide a thorough grounding in risk management techniques ... Read more

    $69.00 USD

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    The Illusion of Control

    Why Financial Crises Happen, and What We Can (and Can't) Do About It

    by Jon Danielsson ...
    Narrated by Bruce Mann ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 41 min

    A challenge to the conventional wisdom surrounding financial risk, providing insight into why easy solutions to control the financial system are doomed to failFinance plays a key role in the prosperity of the modern world—but it also brings grave dangers. We seek to manage those threats with a vast array of sophisticated mathematical tools and techniques of financial risk management. Too often, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Why are we in such a financial mess today? There are lots of proximate causes: over-leverage, global imbalances, bad financial technology that lead to widespread underestimation of risk.But these are all symptoms. Until we isolate and tackle fundamental causes, we will fail to extirpate the disease. ECONned is the first book to examine the unquestioned role of economists as policy-makers, and how ... Read more

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  • When Markets Collide: Investment Strategies for the Age of Global Economic Change

    by Mohamed El-Erian ...
    SELECTED AS A 2008 BEST BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE ECONOMIST"ONE OF THE SMARTEST INVESTORS ON THE PLANET."--MONEY MAGAZINE“This book is an essential read for those whowish to understand the modern world of investing.”—Alan GreenspanWinner of the 2008 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year AwardWhen Markets Collide is a timely alert... ... Read more

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  • How Markets Fail

    The Logic of Economic Calamities

    by John Cassidy ...
    Behind the alarming headlines about job losses, bank bailouts, and corporate greed is a little-known story of bad ideas. For fifty years or more, economists have been busy developing elegant theories of how markets work—how they facilitate innovation, wealth creation, and an efficient allocation of society's resources. But what about when markets don't work? What about when they lead to stock ... Read more

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  • Shocks, Crises, and False Alarms

    How to Assess True Macroeconomic Risk

    by Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak, Paul Swartz ...
    Financial Times Best Books of 2024: Economics — Martin Wolf"...an invaluable framework to better understanding growth, the financial sector, and the key trends shaping the global economy" — Financial Times, Tej ParikhThe shocks and crises of recent years—pandemic, recession, inflation, war—have forced executives and investors to recognize that the macroeconomy is now a risk to be actively managed. ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Any Happy Returns

    Structural Changes and Super Cycles in Markets

    by Peter C. Oppenheimer ...
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  • The Problem of Twelve

    When a Few Financial Institutions Control Everything

    by John Coates ...
    The forces behind an economic and political crisis in the makingA “problem of twelve” arises when a small number of institutions acquire the means to exert outsized influence over the politics and economy of a nation.The Big Four index funds of Vanguard, State Street, Fidelity, and BlackRock control more than twenty percent of the votes of S&P 500 companies—a concentration of power that’s ... Read more

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  • The Curse of Cash

    How Large-Denomination Bills Aid Crime and Tax Evasion and Constrain Monetary Policy

    by Kenneth S. Rogoff ...
    “A brilliant and lucid new book” (John Lanchester, New York Times Magazine) about why paper money and digital currencies lie at the heart of many of the world’s most difficult problems—and their solutionsIn The Curse of Cash, acclaimed economist and bestselling author Kenneth Rogoff explores the past, present, and future of currency, showing why, contrary to conventional economic wisdom, the ... Read more

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  • The New World Economy in 5 Trends

    Investing in times of superinflation, hyperinnovation and climate transition

    by Koen De Leus, Philippe Gijsels ...
    The future is uncertain but for one thing: the global economy is in disarray. Investors, companies and governments must rethink their approach in light of raging inflation, the ongoing climate crisis and an ageing population. In addition, they have to deal with the highest mountain of debt ever accrued in peacetime, disruptive innovations and the effects of multiglobalisation.So much is happening ... Read more

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  • The Subprime Solution

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