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| Publisher | Wiley Publication |
| ISBN 13 | 9780471457329 |
| ISBN 10 | 471457329 |
| Author | Perry Mehrling |
| Language | English |
| Book Description | Fischer Black and the Revolutionary Idea of Finance explores Fischer Black's intellectual journey from Harvard to the offices of ADL, from the University of Chicago to MIT, and then to Goldman Sachs. Years of research and interviews with Black's business and academic associates, as well as family and friends, are distilled into a scholarly yet personal story of the formation and development of the extraordinary mind and unique character of this unassuming renegade. This poignant book tells the story of one man's intellectual adventure at the very center of modern finance. It is a story about the birth of quantitative finance and financial engineering. It is also the story about the continuing human quest to defeat the "dark forces of time and ignorance," as John Maynard Keynes famously put it. |
| Editorial Review | “…excellent…” (getAbstract, 7th November 2005) “a rigorous but rewarding biography” (CFO Europe, October 2005) “highly readable” (Benefits & Compensation International, October 2005) "...well-researched...recommended..." (Accounting Technician, September 2005) |
| About the Author | PERRY MEHRLING is Professor of Economics at Barnard College of Columbia University. He holds a PhD from Harvard University and is the author of The Money Interest and the Public Interest: American Monetary Thought, 19201970. Dr. Mehrling's specialty is the study of financial theory and the history of economics. |
| Format | Hardcover |
| Language | English |
| Edition Number | 1 |
| Publication Date | 38527 |
| Number of Pages | 304 |
Fischer Black and the Revolutionary Idea of Finance Hardcover English by Perry Mehrling - 38527
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