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The wisdom of finance : discovering humanity in the world of risk and return / Mihir A. Desai.
Lippincott Library HG101 .D47 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Desai, Mihir A. (Mihir Arvind), 1968- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Finance--Social aspects.
- Finance.
- Financial services industry--Social aspects.
- Financial services industry.
- Financial institutions--Social aspects.
- Financial institutions.
- Social responsibility of business.
- Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 223 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017.
- Summary:
- The Harvard Business School professor draws upon literature, film, philosophy, and history to argue that, at the core of finance and financial practices, there is a place for principles, ethics, and humanity.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 The Wheel of Fortune 11
- The Fliteraft Parable
- The Quincunx
- From Bottomry to Tontines
- We Are All Insurance Companies
- Wallace Stevens and Ideas of Order
- Chapter 2 Risky Business 35
- Lizzy Bennet as Risk Manager
- If Isaac Newton Had Worked at Goldman Sachs
- I Would Prefer Not To
- Stephen Curry, Stringer Bell, and the Only Free Lunch in Finance
- The Negative Betas of Your Life
- Chapter 3 On Value 58
- The Parable of the Talents
- The Cruel Logic of Value Creation
- Is Education Worth It?
- Your Terminal Values
- The Talents of Samuel Johnson and John Milton
- Alpha-Beta Soup
- Have You Financed?
- Chapter 4 Becoming a Producer 75
- Biafystock and Bloom on Corporate Governance
- Apple and Tootsie Roll
- A Daisy Chain of Principals and Agents
- Vyse vs. Emerson
- Mel Brooks on Freud
- A Blank Sheet of Paper
- Chapter 5 Romance Without Finance 97
- Working Girl
- The Dowry Fund of Renaissance Italy
- The M&A Pages
- A May-December Romance
- Mergers and Marriages Gone Wrong
- General Motors and Fisher Body
- Romance Without Finance
- Chapter 6 Living the Dream 120
- Adam Smith vs. Jeremy Bentham on Leverage
- The Hooks of Gratitude and Obligation
- Jeff Koons vs. George Orwell on Leverage
- Mr. Stevens and Debt Overhang
- The Power of Commitments
- Popeye in Las Vegas
- Chapter 7 Failing Forward 142
- The Man Who Could Have Been on the $10 Bill
- The Bankruptcy Act of 1800
- An Automatic Slay
- A Strategic Bankruptcy at American Airlines
- Agamemnon, Arjuna, Hecuba, and Bankruptcy
- Chapter 8 Why Everyone Hates Finance 161
- The Temptation of Pakhom
- The Lobster and the Squid
- More and More Is Less and Less
- The Asshole Theory of Finance
- Alexandra Bergson as Finance Hero.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780544911130
- 054491113X
- OCLC:
- 987297489
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