A Philosopher On Wall Street

Author : David Ewing Duncan
Publisher : Greenleaf Book Group Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1626348715

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A Philosopher on Wall Street by David Ewing Duncan Pdf

An astonishing tale of Wall Street and the explosion of new life-science technologies and other industries of the future as told by one of the most creative dealmakers of the past 60 years. When Fred Frank arrived on Wall Street in 1958, he became a key member of a small, whip-smart cadre of young financiers who began challenging the stodgy, risk-averse scions of old-world investment banking. He also became the first banker to specialize in biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, and health care services. Frank's perpetual search for the new--pioneering technologies and innovative business models--has transformed our world. A Philosopher on Wall Street is an intriguing tale of * a man who was a force of verve and ingenuity on Wall Street, who built and nurtured new industries that have impacted everyone; * Wall Street and its history since the late 1950s, the surprisingly fascinating story of how high technology in America was capitalized, and the formation and meteoric rise of the pharma and biotech industries; * the best and worst of Wall Street over the past sixty years, and thoughts about the future of how to fund innovation to benefit both people and the bottom line * colorful stories from top innovators, scientists, executives, and investors about deals, intrigue, genius, booms and busts. ​This is the story of one of the most creative dealmakers of the past sixty years, a master artist of finance whose erudition and grace helped shape our world, who has always believed that inspired science, entrepreneurship, and investing are the keys to a better future.

Author : David Ewing Duncan
Publisher : Greenleaf Book Group
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781626348721

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A Philosopher on Wall Street by David Ewing Duncan Pdf

An astonishing tale of Wall Street and the explosion of new life-science technologies and other industries of the future as told by one of the most creative dealmakers of the past 60 years. When Fred Frank arrived on Wall Street in 1958, he became a key member of a small, whip-smart cadre of young financiers who began challenging the stodgy, risk-averse scions of old-world investment banking. He also became the first banker to specialize in biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, and health care services. Frank’s perpetual search for the new—pioneering technologies and innovative business models—has transformed our world. A Philosopher on Wall Street is an intriguing tale of • a man who was a force of verve and ingenuity on Wall Street, who built and nurtured new industries that have impacted everyone; • Wall Street and its history since the late 1950s, the surprisingly fascinating story of how high technology in America was capitalized, and the formation and meteoric rise of the pharma and biotech industries; • the best and worst of Wall Street over the past sixty years, and thoughts about the future of how to fund innovation to benefit both people and the bottom line • colorful stories from top innovators, scientists, executives, and investors about deals, intrigue, genius, booms and busts. ​This is the story of one of the most creative dealmakers of the past sixty years, a master artist of finance whose erudition and grace helped shape our world, who has always believed that inspired science, entrepreneurship, and investing are the keys to a better future.

Author : James Owen Weatherall
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780547317274

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The Physics of Wall Street by James Owen Weatherall Pdf

A young scholar tells the story of the physicists and mathematicians who created the models that have become the basis of modern finance and argues that these models are the "solution" to--not the source of--our current economic woes.

Author : A. C. Grayling
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780241980866

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The History of Philosophy by A. C. Grayling Pdf

AUTHORITATIVE AND ACCESSIBLE, THIS LANDMARK WORK IS THE FIRST SINGLE-VOLUME HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY SHARED FOR DECADES 'A cerebrally enjoyable survey, written with great clarity and touches of wit' Sunday Times The story of philosophy is an epic tale: an exploration of the ideas, views and teachings of some of the most creative minds known to humanity. But there has been no comprehensive history of this great intellectual journey since 1945. Intelligible for students and eye-opening for philosophy readers, A. C. Grayling covers with characteristic clarity and elegance subjects like epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, logic, and the philosophy of mind, as well as the history of debates in these areas, through the ideas of celebrated philosophers as well as less well-known influential thinkers. The History of Philosophy takes the reader on a journey from the age of the Buddha, Confucius and Socrates. Through Christianity's dominance of the European mind to the Renaissance and Enlightenment. On to Mill, Nietzsche, Sartre, then the philosophical traditions of India, China and the Persian-Arabic world. And finally, into philosophy today.

Author : Scott W. Gustafson
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467443913

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At the Altar of Wall Street by Scott W. Gustafson Pdf

Shows how economics functions as the dominant religion in America today In this provocative book Scott Gustafson argues that economics functions in our current global culture as religions have functioned in other cultures. He describes and analyzes the rituals, pilgrimage sites, myths, prophets, sacraments, and mission of Economics to show how the Economy is our de facto God. Discussing such topics as debt, economic terrorism, globalization, and money as the Economy's sacrament, Gustafson's At the Altar of Wall Street encompasses a broad sweep of history, philosophy, culture studies, economic ideas, and religion in its trenchant analysis.

Author : Rebecca Goldstein
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780307378194

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Plato at the Googleplex by Rebecca Goldstein Pdf

Acclaimed philosopher and novelist Rebecca Newberger Goldstein provides a dazzlingly original plunge into the drama of philosophy, revealing its hidden role in today's debates on religion, morality, politics, and science.

Author : Charles R. Geisst
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0195170601

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Wall Street by Charles R. Geisst Pdf

In this wide-ranging volume, a financial historian updates the first history of Wall Street, recounting the speculative fever of the 1990s and the scandals at Enron, Tyco, WorldCom, and Conseco. 27 halftones.

Author : Charles R. Geisst
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2004-02-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199883615

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Wall Street: A History by Charles R. Geisst Pdf

In the seven years since the publication of the first edition of Wall Street, America's financial industry has undergone a series of wrenching events that have dramatically changed the nation's economic landscape. The bull market of the 1990's came to a close, ushering in the end of the dot com boom, a record number of mergers occurred, and accounting scandals in companies like Enron and WorldCom shook the financial industry to its core. In this wide-ranging volume, financial historian Charles Geisst provides the first history of Wall Street, explaining how a small, concentrated pocket of lower Manhattan came to have such enormous influence in national and world affairs. In this updated edition, Geisst sums up the recent turbulence that has threatened America's financial industry. He shows how in 1997 thirty NASDAQ market makers paid a record $1.3 billion fine for price irregularities in stocks. He makes sense of the closing of the bull market, and explains a major change in the accounting rules for mergers that caused monumental losses for companies like AOL Time Warner. And he recounts how in the aftermath of the speculative fever that swept Wall Street in the 1990's, the scandals at Enron, Tyco, Worldcom, and Conseco represent a last gasp of mergermania and a fallout from a bubble-like market. Wall Street is at once the story of the street itself, from the days when the wall was merely a defensive barricade built by Peter Stuyvesant, to the modern billion-dollar computer-driven colossus of today. In a broader sense it is an engaging economic history of the United States, the role Wall Street played in making America the most powerful economy in the world, and the many challenges to that role it has faced in recent years.

Author : David E McClean
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317317623

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Wall Street, Reforming the Unreformable by David E McClean Pdf

McClean argues that a collective move towards stewardship within the financial industry is necessary to restore ethical behaviour and public confidence. Drawing on practical examples and offering new policy recommendations, this unique philosophical study paints a picture of what a truly ethical trading culture of the future might look like.

Author : Mark Hendrickson
Publisher : ibooks
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781883283797

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God and Man on Wall Street, The Conscience of Capitalism by Mark Hendrickson Pdf

“This remarkable book will change the way you look at fixing Wall Street and redeeming capitalism.” — Scott Umstead, President, Fusion Investment Group Fed up with Wall Street? You’re not alone. It doesn’t have to be this way! Craig Columbus and Mark Hendrickson turn the subject of financial reform upside down. The authors pull no punches, taking both Wall Street and central bankers to task. They also show you a different side of the financial system, reminding us of the good Wall Street is capable of doing. This hopeful book connects the head and the heart of free markets—uncovering original solutions that cannot be reached by regulations alone. Written for the financial professional and layman alike, GOD AND MAN ON WALL STREET will both challenge and inspire you. https://plus.google.com/u/0/117681616430711223508/videos#117681616430711223508/videos

Author : Gennady Favel
Publisher : Traders Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1934354066

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The Stock Market Philosopher by Gennady Favel Pdf

The Stock Market Philosopher: Insights of a Soviet-Born, New York-Bred Hedge Fund Trader is an entertaining examination of a successful Wall Street trader s thoughts on the stock market, starting with his early attraction to risk-taking endeavors. It's a thoughtful book on trading strategy masquerading as a memoir.

Author : James Owen Weatherall
Publisher : HMH
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780547618296

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The Physics of Wall Street by James Owen Weatherall Pdf

A look inside the world of “quants” and how science can (and can’t) predict financial markets: “Entertaining and enlightening” (The New York Times). After the economic meltdown of 2008, Warren Buffett famously warned, “beware of geeks bearing formulas.” But while many of the mathematicians and software engineers on Wall Street failed when their abstractions turned ugly in practice, a special breed of physicists has a much deeper history of revolutionizing finance. Taking us from fin-de-siècle Paris to Rat Pack–era Las Vegas, from wartime government labs to Yippie communes on the Pacific coast, James Owen Weatherall shows how physicists successfully brought their science to bear on some of the thorniest problems in economics, from options pricing to bubbles. The crisis was partly a failure of mathematical modeling. But even more, it was a failure of some very sophisticated financial institutions to think like physicists. Models—whether in science or finance—have limitations; they break down under certain conditions. And in 2008, sophisticated models fell into the hands of people who didn’t understand their purpose, and didn’t care. It was a catastrophic misuse of science. The solution, however, is not to give up on models; it’s to make them better. This book reveals the people and ideas on the cusp of a new era in finance, from a geophysicist using a model designed for earthquakes to predict a massive stock market crash to a physicist-run hedge fund earning 2,478.6% over the course of the 1990s. Weatherall shows how an obscure idea from quantum theory might soon be used to create a far more accurate Consumer Price Index. The Physics of Wall Street will change how we think about our economic future. “Fascinating history . . . Happily, the author has a gift for making complex concepts clear to lay readers.” —Booklist

Author : William Worthington Fowler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Speculation
ISBN : HARVARD:32044019358852

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Inside Life in Wall Street, Or, How Great Fortunes are Lost and Won by William Worthington Fowler Pdf

Author : Aaron Brown
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781118161104

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The Poker Face of Wall Street by Aaron Brown Pdf

Wall Street is where poker and modern finance?and the theory behind these "games"?clash head on. In both worlds, real risk means real money is made or lost in a heart beat, and neither camp is always rational with the risk it takes. As a result, business and financial professionals who want to use poker insights to improve their job performance will find this entertaining book a "must read." So will poker players searching for an edge in applying the insights of risk-takers on Wall Street.

Author : F. Worthington
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9785871269169

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Ten years in Wall Street or, Revelations of inside life and experience on 'change by F. Worthington Pdf

Histories, mysteries, and men of the "street" — the stock exchange — the gold room —the speculations in stocks, gold, governments, pork, petroleum, grain, etс. — sketches from life of the noted speculators and money kings, with anecdotes and incidents of their careers — the women who speculate — the great rises and panics, and how and by whom they were formed — a description of the battles of the giants, and of the great gold ring of 1869, etс., etс., etс. "All of which i Saw, and part of which i Was", since 1857. By William Worthington Fowler.