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The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street

by Justin Fox · 29 May 2009 · 461pp · 128,421 words

The Myth of the Rational Market A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street Justin Fox To Allison Contents Introduction: It had been Working So Exceptionally Well Early Days

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speculators and investors (not to mention its central bankers) were in fact following his advice. Nothing, therefore, could go wrong. Irving Fisher had succumbed to the myth of the rational market. It is a myth of great power—one that, much of the time, explains reality pretty well. But it is nonetheless a myth, an oversimplification

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Manias, Panics and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises, Sixth Edition

by Kindleberger, Charles P. and Robert Z., Aliber · 9 Aug 2011

of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System – and Themselves. Roger Lowenstein authored The End of Wall Street, Justin Fox wrote The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street, and Scott Patterson produced The Quants; How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall

Why Aren't They Shouting?: A Banker’s Tale of Change, Computers and Perpetual Crisis

by Kevin Rodgers · 13 Jul 2016 · 318pp · 99,524 words

, U.S. House of Representatives’, 24 July 1998, http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/testimony/1998/19980724.htm 4 For more on this fascinating topic, see The Myth of the Rational Market, Justin Fox, Harper Business, 2011. 5 The End of History and the Last Man, Francis Fukuyama, Penguin Books, 1992. 6 ‘The Financial Crisis and the

Expected Returns: An Investor's Guide to Harvesting Market Rewards

by Antti Ilmanen · 4 Apr 2011 · 1,088pp · 228,743 words

–97. Foresi, Silverio; and Lauren Wu (2005), “CrashOPhobia: A domestic fear or a worldwide concern?” Journal of Derivatives 13(2), 8–21. Fox, Justin (2009), The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street, HarperBusiness. Francis, Jack Clark; and Roger G. Ibbotson (2009), “Contrasting real estate with comparable investments

Them And Us: Politics, Greed And Inequality - Why We Need A Fair Society

by Will Hutton · 30 Sep 2010 · 543pp · 147,357 words

example of cross-fertilisation, see Didier Sornette (2003) Why Stockmarkets Crash: Critical Events in Complex Financial Systems, Princeton University Press. 39 See Justin Fox (2009) The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street, HarperBusiness. 40 The following example is paraphrased from Baseline Scenario: http://baselinescenario.com/2009/10

Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics

by Richard H. Thaler · 10 May 2015 · 500pp · 145,005 words

. Fisher, Irving. 1930. The Theory of Interest: As Determined by Impatience to Spend Income and Opportunity to Invest It. New York: MacMillan. Fox, Justin. 2009. The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street. New York: HarperCollins. Frank, Robert H., Thomas Gilovich, and Dennis T. Regan. 1993. “Does Studying

Virtual Competition

by Ariel Ezrachi and Maurice E. Stucke · 30 Nov 2016

Chicago School of Antitrust Analysis,” University of Pennsylvania Law Review 127 (1978): 925, 933. 9. Posner, “The Chicago School of Antitrust Analysis.” 10. Justin Fox, The Myth of the Rational Market (New York: Harper Business/ HarperCollins, 2009), 89–107. 11. As President Reagan told the nation, “government is not the solution to our problem; government is

A First-Class Catastrophe: The Road to Black Monday, the Worst Day in Wall Street History

by Diana B. Henriques · 18 Sep 2017 · 526pp · 144,019 words

guide investment strategies: The evolution of quantitative analysis from an academic specialty to a force in the modern market is ably told by Justin Fox, The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street (New York: Harper Business, 2011); Peter Bernstein, Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall

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measure of a stock’s sensitivity to the movements of the overall market.) See Bernstein, Capital Ideas, pp. 256–68, 275, 280–82; and Fox, The Myth of the Rational Market, pp. 127, 138–40, 151, 224, and 326–27. After a long and influential career, he stunned the quantitative world by running afoul of the

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, “The Origin of the First Index Fund,” University of Chicago Booth School of Business, 2012, http://www.crsp.com/files/SpringMagazine_IndexFund.pdf; and Fox, The Myth of the Rational Market, pp. 137–41. that has had a greater impact on American markets: Indeed, Madrick, Seven Bad Ideas, nominates it as one of his “Seven Bad

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Ideas.” this innovative team was road-testing index funds: Bernstein, Capital Ideas, pp. 234–35; and Fox, The Myth of the Rational Market, p. 127. measuring pension fund performance: Interview with Kelly Haughton, July 8, 2015. Haughton, a notable financial engineer who worked at WFIA in the late

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Rosenberg invited him over to brew beer in Professor Rosenberg’s basement. why would they bother to gather that knowledge in the first place: Fox, The Myth of the Rational Market, p. 182. Economists Joseph Stiglitz and Sanford Grossman, both at Stanford in the mid-1970s, were especially trenchant in posing this puzzle. As they saw

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. Were human beings really the cool, rational investors envisioned: An excellent account of the development of this new “behavioral economics” can be found in Fox, The Myth of the Rational Market, especially on pp. 186–300. For deeper insights, see Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011); and Michael Lewis

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an idea that could be valuable: Ibid. It is an oft-told tale, also recounted at length in Bernstein, Capital Ideas, pp. 269–73; Fox, The Myth of the Rational Market, p. 151; and Kupfer, “Leland, O’Brien, and Rubinstein.” What sane insurance company would write policies: Unfortunately, that idea did not seem absurd during the

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York Times, May 6, 1988, p. A20. The LOR partners were immensely relieved to learn: LOR interview 2016. and Black Monday encouraged its critics: Fox, The Myth of the Rational Market, p. 232. Ruder rebelled against the reluctant regulators: David S. Ruder, “An SEC Chairman’s Recollection,” June 2, 2004, pp. 5–6, SECHS website, used

More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite

by Sebastian Mallaby · 9 Jun 2010 · 584pp · 187,436 words

, 1987, p. D1. 49. Dan Dorfman, “Sabbatical for a Superstar,” Esquire, August 29, 1978, p. 12. CHAPTER THREE: PAUL SAMUELSON’S SECRET 1. Justin Fox, The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street, (New York: HarperCollins, 2009), p. 124. 2. Peter L. Bernstein, Capital Ideas Evolving (Hoboken, NJ

Unfinished Business

by Tamim Bayoumi · 405pp · 109,114 words

Bank Mergers and Shareholdings in OECD Countries”, Journal of Banking and Finance, Vol. 25, No. 12 (December 2001), pp. 2305–37. Fox (2009): Justin Fox, The Myth of the Rational Market, Harper Business, New York, 2009. Friedman (2006): Benjamin M. Friedman, The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth, Alfred Knopf, New York, 2006. Gagnon (2012): Joseph Gagnon