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Adaptive Markets : Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought /
A new, evolutionary explanation of markets and investor behaviorHalf of all Americans have money in the stock market, yet economists can't agree on whether investors and markets are rational and efficient, as modern financial theory assumes, or irrational and inefficient, as behavioral economis...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2019.
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| Edición: | First paperback edition. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; Financial Fear Factor; Don't Try This At Home; The Great Divide; "It's the environment, stupid!"; Revenge of the Nerds; Chapter 1. Are We All Homo economicus Now?; Tragedy and the Wisdom of Crowds; A Random Walk through History; The Birth of Efficient Markets; Efficient Markets Unpacked; What to Expect When You're Expecting; Efficient Markets in Action; Chapter 2. If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich?; Rejecting the Random Walk; Risk versus Uncertainty and the Ellsberg Paradox; Losing Hurts More than Winning Feels Good
- No-Limit Texas Hold 'em, Rogue Traders, and RegulatorsProbability Matching and March Madness; Humans as Prediction Machines; It Takes a Theory to Beat a Theory; Culture Shock; Chapter 3. If You're So Rich, Why Aren't You Smart?; Looking under the Hood; The Microscope of Neuroscience; Fear; Pain; Pleasure and Greed; Wired-Up Traders; The Stuff Good Traders Are Made Of; Mind over Money via Neural Currency; I Want It All, and I Want It Now; Chapter 4. The Power of Narrative; A New Meaning of Rationality; The Human Fire Alarm and Sprinkler System; The Fear Factor and Finance
- I Know You Know That I KnowHomo economicus and the Left Hemisphere; The Prefrontal Cortex as CEO; The Power of Self-Fulfilling Prophecies; Barbara Ficalora, the Best Third Grade Teacher Ever; Narrative Is Intelligence; Chapter 5. The Evolution Revolution; A Day at the Zoo; The Evolution Revolution; Just-So Stories or Scientific Fact?; The Power of Selection; Variety Is the Spice of Life; "It's the environment, stupid!"; The Emergence of Homo sapiens; Enter Homo economicus; An Evolutionary Pecking Order; Swedish Twins and Savings; Evolution at the Speed of Thought
- Sociobiology and Evolutionary PsychologySurvival of the Richest?; Chapter 6. The Adaptive Markets Hypothesis; It Takes a Theory to Beat a Theory; Simon Says Satisfice; The Superman Jacket; The Adaptive Markets Hypothesis; Probability Matching Explained; Nature Abhors an Undiversified Bet; "It's the environment, stupid!" All Over Again; Homo economicus and Idiosyncratic Risk; The Origin of Risk Aversion; Efficient versus Adaptive Markets; Waylaid by Physics Envy; On the Shoulders of Giants; Chapter 7. The Galapagos Islands of Finance; Quantum Mechanics; Mission Impossible
- The Islands of EvolutionHedge Fund Archipelago; An Evolutionary History of the Hedge Fund; The Birth of Quants; The Revenge of the Nerds; Quant Goes Mainstream; The Evolution of the Random Walk; Cell Phones and Kerala Fishermen; Chapter 8. Adaptive Markets in Action; The Traditional Investment Paradigm; The Great Modulation; A New World Order; Risk/Reward and Punishment; The Democratization of Investing; New Species of Index Funds; Smart Beta versus Dumb Sigma; Disbanding the Alpha Beta Sigma Fraternity; The Random Walk Revisited; A New Investment Paradigm; The Quant Meltdown of August 2007