| Descript |
1 online resource (x, 489 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) |
| Content |
text txt |
| Media |
computer c |
| Carrier |
online resource cr |
| Edition |
First paperback edition. |
| Contents |
Cover; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; Financial Fear Factor; Don't Try This At Home; The Great Divide; "It's the environment, stupid!"; Revenge of the Nerds; Chapter 1. Are We All Homo economicus Now?; Tragedy and the Wisdom of Crowds; A Random Walk through History; The Birth of Efficient Markets; Efficient Markets Unpacked; What to Expect When You're Expecting; Efficient Markets in Action; Chapter 2. If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich?; Rejecting the Random Walk; Risk versus Uncertainty and the Ellsberg Paradox; Losing Hurts More than Winning Feels Good |
|
No-Limit Texas Hold 'em, Rogue Traders, and RegulatorsProbability Matching and March Madness; Humans as Prediction Machines; It Takes a Theory to Beat a Theory; Culture Shock; Chapter 3. If You're So Rich, Why Aren't You Smart?; Looking under the Hood; The Microscope of Neuroscience; Fear; Pain; Pleasure and Greed; Wired-Up Traders; The Stuff Good Traders Are Made Of; Mind over Money via Neural Currency; I Want It All, and I Want It Now; Chapter 4. The Power of Narrative; A New Meaning of Rationality; The Human Fire Alarm and Sprinkler System; The Fear Factor and Finance |
|
I Know You Know That I KnowHomo economicus and the Left Hemisphere; The Prefrontal Cortex as CEO; The Power of Self-Fulfilling Prophecies; Barbara Ficalora, the Best Third Grade Teacher Ever; Narrative Is Intelligence; Chapter 5. The Evolution Revolution; A Day at the Zoo; The Evolution Revolution; Just-So Stories or Scientific Fact?; The Power of Selection; Variety Is the Spice of Life; "It's the environment, stupid!"; The Emergence of Homo sapiens; Enter Homo economicus; An Evolutionary Pecking Order; Swedish Twins and Savings; Evolution at the Speed of Thought |
|
Sociobiology and Evolutionary PsychologySurvival of the Richest?; Chapter 6. The Adaptive Markets Hypothesis; It Takes a Theory to Beat a Theory; Simon Says Satisfice; The Superman Jacket; The Adaptive Markets Hypothesis; Probability Matching Explained; Nature Abhors an Undiversified Bet; "It's the environment, stupid!" All Over Again; Homo economicus and Idiosyncratic Risk; The Origin of Risk Aversion; Efficient versus Adaptive Markets; Waylaid by Physics Envy; On the Shoulders of Giants; Chapter 7. The Galapagos Islands of Finance; Quantum Mechanics; Mission Impossible |
|
The Islands of EvolutionHedge Fund Archipelago; An Evolutionary History of the Hedge Fund; The Birth of Quants; The Revenge of the Nerds; Quant Goes Mainstream; The Evolution of the Random Walk; Cell Phones and Kerala Fishermen; Chapter 8. Adaptive Markets in Action; The Traditional Investment Paradigm; The Great Modulation; A New World Order; Risk/Reward and Punishment; The Democratization of Investing; New Species of Index Funds; Smart Beta versus Dumb Sigma; Disbanding the Alpha Beta Sigma Fraternity; The Random Walk Revisited; A New Investment Paradigm; The Quant Meltdown of August 2007 |
| ISBN |
9780691196800 (electronic book) |
|
069119680X (electronic book) |
|
0691191360 (paperback) |
|
9780691191362 (paperback) |
|
9780691135144 (hbk.) |
|
0691135142 (hbk.) |
|
