Red-blooded risk [electronic resource] : the secret history of Wall Street / Aaron Brown ; [illustrated by Eric Kim].
- Author
- Brown, Aaron, 1956-
- Additional Titles
- Secret history of Wall Street
- Published
- Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, c2012.
- Physical Description
- xii, 415 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Additional Creators
- Kim, Eric, 1977-
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- Contents
- What this book is and why you should read it -- Red blood and blue blood -- Pascal's wager and the seven principles of risk management -- The secret history of Wall Street, 1654-1982 -- When Harry met Kelly -- Exponentials, vampires, zombies, and tulips -- Money -- The story of money : the past -- The secret history of Wall Street, 1983-1987 -- The story of money : the future -- Cold blood -- What does a risk manager do? : inside VaR -- VaR of the jungle -- The secret history of Wall Street, 1988-1992 -- Hot blood and thin blood -- What does a risk manager do? : outside VaR -- The story of risk -- Frequency versus degree of belief -- The secret history of Wall Street, 1993-2007 -- The secret history of Wall Street : the 2007 crisis and beyond -- Postmortem -- A risk management curiculum.
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- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 9781118043868 (cloth)
1118043863 (cloth)
9781118140154 (ebk.)
111814015X (ebk.) - Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography Note
- "One hundred useful books": p. 393-399.
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