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F.I.A.S.C.O.: Blood in the Water on Wall Street"Fiasco" is the shocking story of one man's education in the jungles of Wall Street. As a young derivatives salesman at Morgan Stanley, Frank Partnoy learned to buy and sell billions of dollars worth of securities that were so complex many traders themselves didn't...
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Take on the Street: How to Fight for Your Financial FutureIn Take on the Street, Arthur Levitt--Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission for eight years under President Clinton--provides the best kind of insider information: the kind that can help honest, small investors protect themselves from the deliberately confusing ways of Wall Street. At...
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Rock Breaks Scissors: A Practical Guide to Outguessing and Outwitting Almost EverybodyA practical guide to outguessing everything, from multiple-choice tests to the office football pool to the stock market. People are predictable even when they try not to be. William Poundstone demonstrates how to turn this fact to personal advantage in scores of everyday situations,...
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Capital and the Common Good: How Innovative Finance Is Tackling the World's Most Urgent ProblemsDespite social and economic advances around the world, poverty and disease persist, exacerbated by the mounting challenges of climate change, natural disasters, political conflict, mass migration, and economic inequality. While governments commit to addressing these challenges, traditional public and philanthropic dollars are not enough....
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Active Portfolio Management: A Quantitative Approach for Producing Superior Returns and Selecting Superior Returns and Controlling Risk"This new edition of Active Portfolio Management continues the standard of excellence established in the first edition, with new and clear insights to help investment professionals." -William E. Jacques, Partner and Chief Investment Officer, Martingale Asset Management. "Active Portfolio Management offers investors an opportunity...
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Discourses of Legitimation in the News: The Case of the Economic Crisis in GreeceExamining the news coverage of the economic crisis in Greece, this book develops a framework for identifying discourses of legitimation of actors, political decisions, and policies in the news. This study departs from the assumption that news is a privileged terrain where discursive struggles...
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Introductory Mathematical Analysis for Quantitative FinanceIntroductory Mathematical Analysis for Quantitative Finance is a textbook designed to enable students with little knowledge of mathematical analysis to fully engage with modern quantitative finance. A basic understanding of dimensional Calculus and Linear Algebra is assumed. The exposition of the topics is as...
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Behavioural Public Finance: Individuals, Society, and the StateThis book tackles political, social, and behavioural aspects of public finance and fiscal exchange. The book combines conventional approaches toward public finance with new developments in economics such as political governance, social and individual aspects of economic behaviour. It colligates public finance and behavioural...
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Risk Management in Public-Private PartnershipsPublic-Private Partnership (PPP) is a channel through which the public sector can seek alternative funding and expertise from the private sector to procure public infrastructure. Governments around the world are increasingly turning to Public-Private Partnerships to deliver essential goods and services. Unfortunately, PPPs, like...
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Money in One LessonYou Spend It. You Save It. You Never Have Enough of It. But how does it actually work? Understanding cash, currencies and the financial system is vital for making sense of what is going on in our world, especially now. Since the 2008 financial...
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Trading Futures: A Theological Critique of Financialized CapitalismThe discourse of financialized capitalism tries to create a future predictable enough to manage risk for the wealthy, to shape the future into a profit-making site that constrains and privatizes the sense of what's possible. Here, people's hopes and meaning-making energies are policed through...
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The Choice We Face: How Segregation, Race, and Power Have Shaped America's Most Controversial Education Reform MovementA comprehensive history of school choice in the US, from its birth in the 1950s as the most effective weapon to oppose integration to its lasting impact in reshaping the public education system today. Most Americans today see school choice as their inalienable right....
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Currency Wars V: The Coming RainPeople's ability to think is often paralyzed in the face of overwhelming information and a myriad of opinions. Critical data is drowned out by noise data, important details are confused by minutiae, deeper pathologies are confused by superficial pathologies, core reasoning is tied up...
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The Economy of Promises: Trust, Power, and Credit in AmericaA comprehensive and illuminating account of the history of credit in America--and how it continues to divide the haves from the have-nots The Economy of Promises is a far-reaching study of credit in nineteenth- and twentieth-century America. Synthesizing and surveying economic and social history,...
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How To Make Money In Stocks: A Guide To Stock Market Investing For Beginners To Show That Wealthy People And Hedge Funds Shouldn't Have All The FunAre you tired of the same old investment books where you leave still feeling like you don't understand investing? Then you need to keep reading...You are about to start investing in your future!Everything is ready. You have passion, extra capital, and a little bit...
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Funding Sources for PreK-12 Education: Including Adult and Alternative EducationFunding Sources for PreK-12 Education provides the most current and comprehensive information on over 2,500 sources for educational program funding. This annual directory not only provides essential funding information for public and private PreK-12 schools, but is also one of the few that emphasizes...
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Complete Family Wealth: Wealth as Well-BeingA primer for families of high net worth on how to manage their qualitative and financial wealth for generations The second edition of this foundational work, Complete Family Wealth: Wealth as Well-Being provides proven tools and best practices for families of means to use...
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The (Near) Future of Central Bank Digital Currencies: Risks and Opportunities for the Global Economy and SocietyThe value of global cashless payments has been radically increasing worldwide. Despite cash being the most used payment instrument in the world, technological innovation and new consumer preferences are decisively transforming the way consumers pay and manage money. The COVID-19 pandemic may also have...
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Buy and Hedge: The 5 Iron Rules for Investing Over the Long TermIf you're trying to build wealth, sharp market downturns are your worst enemy.Bloomberg guest Jay Pestrichelli and financial industry veteran Wayne Ferbert show how to protect yourself against violent downturns while giving your portfolio maximum room to run in upward markets.In Buy and Hedge,...
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Making Cash Flow: A concept and a system for Managing Your MoneyThis is an internationally accredited, Continued Professional Development (CPD) book and supports the accredited, independent training course in financial education. It is comprehensive and has many illustrations that help people who are working on home budgets, running a small business, or working in a...
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