Finance and Economics Books (books) group

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1. danny

   !books My review of Lords of Finance http://dannyreviews.com/h/Lords_Finance.html

   about 17 days ago from web at Oxford, England, United Kingdom in context
2. ramanan

   New book on my shelf http://books.google.com/books?id=nxsP8ygXff4C&lpg=PP1&dq=balance%20of%20payments%20and%20economic%20growth&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false !books @sean it has some sections on the Australian story till 1994.

   about a month ago from web in context
3. danny

   !books my review of The Spirit Level http://dannyreviews.com/h/Spirit_Level.html

   about 3 months ago from web in context
4. mule

   @magpie I do and in fact recently started reading John Sutton's "What Can Economists Know?" http://amzn.to/a5J6qq !books

   about 5 months ago from web at Melbourne, Victoria, Australia in context
5. ramanan

   Just ordered this http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Shaking-the-Invisible-Hand/Basil-John-Moore/e/9781403999467/?itm=1&USRI=basil+moore+shaking+the+invisible+hand !books

   about 5 months ago from web
6. danny

   !books I've bought a cheap Chinese edition of Financial Calculus, will let you know what I make of it. And a copy of Lords of Finance is on its way from Amazon UK.

   about 5 months ago from web
7. sean

   @ramanan it is a fascinating subject. I very much enjoyed reading 'The Elegant Universe' by Brian Greene http://bit.ly/aBtDQE some years ago. !books /cc @zebra

   about 5 months ago from web at Leichhardt, Australia in context
8. sean

   Michael Lewis's new book "The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine" looks as iconoclastic as ever. http://bit.ly/aAktO6 !books /via @nords

   about 6 months ago from web at Leichhardt, Australia
9. sean

   RT for !books: @danny Copeland & Weston "Financial Theory and Corporate Policy" - great theoretical but lucid intro eg. Modigliani-Miller, agency theory et al. 4th ed update C, W & Shastri.

   about 6 months ago from web at Leichhardt, New South Wales, Australia
10. mark

    @danny Re: some sense about Chinese foreign reserves http://tinyurl.com/ylx4hzo (MPettis), perhaps The Volatility Machine by Michael Pettis is worth a looks !books

    about 6 months ago from web
11. mark

    @danny here's a possible avatar for !books http://ur1.ca/ps61

    about 6 months ago from web in context
12. sean

    @danny it's a good read: follows the boom and bust of the 20s-40s from the perspective of the major central bankers of Britain, US, France and Germany. !books

    about 6 months ago from web at Leichhardt, New South Wales, Australia in context
13. danny

    !books Sean has also recommended _Lords of Finance_ (Ahamed). This is only £5.33 from Amazon UK http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/009949308X/dannyyeesbook-21 which will be hard to resist.

    about 6 months ago from web in context
14. sean

    @ramanan let me know how you go and, if you find some interesting ones (not necessarily good!), post them in !books

    about 6 months ago from web at Leichhardt, New South Wales, Australia in context
15. sean

    @ramanan thanks for the link...I got the book mainly because I expect to disagree with most of it! I plan to eventually write a Mule post debunking it. !books

    about 6 months ago from web at Leichhardt, Australia in context
16. danny

    !books I second the recommendation for The Black Swan - see http://dannyreviews.com/h/Black_Swan.html

    about 6 months ago from web in context
17. sean

    @danny I recently bought "This Time is Different" by Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff. Haven't started, but expect it may infuriate me. /cc @mark @ramanan @senexx !mmt !books

    about 6 months ago from web at Leichhardt, Australia in context
18. mark

    !books this group needs an avatar, which should be simple. @danny do you want me to snap something?

    about 6 months ago from web in context
19. mark

    !books _The Black Swan_ (Nassim Taleb): arrogant and caustic in tone, and misguided on several levels (IMHO) but deeply important on others; stick it out to the end and ignore the chaff along the way

    about 6 months ago from web in context
20. danny

    !books and Mark has recommended _Financial Calculus: An Introduction to Derivative Pricing_ (Rennie + Baxter)

    about 6 months ago from web