Fischer Black and the Revolutionary Idea of Finance

Perry Mehrling, Aaron Brown

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John Wiley & Sons Inc
02 December 2011

Finance

"praise for FISCHER BLACK AND THE REVOLUTIONARY IDEA OF FINANCE

""The story of Fischer Black. . . . is remarkable both because of the creativity of the man and because of the revolution he brought to Wall Street. . . . Mehrling's book is fascinating.""

FINANCIAL TIMES

""A fascinating history of things we take for granted in our everyday financial lives.""

THE NEW YORK TIMES

""Mehrling's book is essential reading for anyone interested in the development of modern finance or the life of an idiosyncratic creative genius.""

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

""Fischer Black was more than a vital force in the development of finance theory. He was also a character. Perry Mehrling has captured both sides of the picture: the evolution of thinking about the pricing of risk and time, as well as the thinkers, especially this fascinating eccentric, who worked it out.""

ROBERT M. SOWLO, Nobel laureate and Institute Professor of Economics, Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

""Although I worked closely with Fischer for nine years at Goldman Sachs and clearly recognized both his genius and the breadth and originality of his ideas, until I read this book, I had only the vaguest grasp of the source of his inspiration and no understanding at all of the source of his many idiosyncrasies.""

BOB LITTERMAN, Partner, Kepos Capital

""Perry Mehrling has done a remarkable job of tracing the intellectual and personal development of one of the most original and complex thinkers of our generation. Fischer Black deserved it: a charming and brilliant book about a charming and brilliant man.""

ROBERT E. LUCAS JR., Nobel laureate and Professor of Economics, The University of Chicago"

By: Perry Mehrling, Aaron Brown
Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 230mm, Width: 154mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 485g
ISBN: 9781118203569
ISBN 10: 1118203569
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 02 December 2011
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgments ix Foreword xv Preface xxi Prologue The Price of Risk 1 ONE Thou Living Ray of Intellectual Fire 23 TWO An Idea in the Rough 49 THREE Some Kind of an Education 73 FOUR Living Up to the Model 99 FIVE Tortuous Economic Intuition 119 SIX The Money Wars 139 SEVEN Global Reach 165 EIGHT Stagflation 189 NINE Changing Fields 215 TEN What Do Traders Do? 231 ELEVEN Exploring General Equilibrium 255 Epilogue Nothing Is Constant 283 Appendix A A Financial Notes Chronology 299 Appendix B A Newsletter Chronology 301 Notes 303 References 327 Index 355

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, 1920 1970, and The New Lombard Street: How the Fed became the Dealer of Last Resort. Dr. Mehrling's specialty is the study of financial theory and the history of economics.

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