Fischer Black and the Revolutionary Idea of Finance

Name: Fischer Black and the Revolutionary Idea of Finance
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ISBN: 9780471457329

ISBN-10: 0471457329

ISBN-13: 9780471457329

Edition: 2005

Authors: Perry G. Mehrling, Aaron Brown

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The story of a giant in the world of finance Besides revolutionizing finance by providing the methodology to price a new instrument-through the Black-Scholes option pricing model-Fischer Black revolutionized Wall Street by effectively developing what is now known as quantitative finance. Black deciphered the universe of modern finance in ways that went underappreciated for many years-and would have won the Nobel Prize in Economics, if not for his untimely death in 1995. Now, in Fischer Black and the Revolutionary Idea of Finance, author Perry Mehrling weaves Black's personal story with the birth of modern finance into a vignette-based business biography that captures the essence of this…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/30/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 374
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.00" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Prologue: The Price of Risk



Thou Living Ray of Intellectual Fire



An Idea in the Rough



Some Kind of an Education



Living Up to the Model



Tortuous Economic Intuition



The Money Wars



Global Reach



Stagflation



Changing Fields



What Do Traders Do?



Exploring General Equilibrium


Epilogue: Nothing Is Constant


Notes


References


Index