Emotions in Finance Booms, Busts and Uncertainty

Name: Emotions in Finance Booms, Busts and Uncertainty
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ISBN: 9781107633377

ISBN-10: 1107633370

ISBN-13: 9781107633377

Edition: 2nd 2012

Authors: Jocelyn Pixley

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Money is a promise with future benefits or dangers that can never, because unknowable, be calculated. The financial sector is driven to beat this uncertainty by speculating on whether prices will rise or fall. No matter how often the folly of this behaviour is demonstrated through crisis after crisis, this attempt to defeat uncertainty persists. Yet uncertainty is unavoidable. Squeezed in one place, it emerges in another. Based on extensive interviews with leading actors in the financial markets, this book argues that the only way to face uncertainty is with emotions and values. It presents an original explanation of how booms and busts arise from internal disputes over trust between…

Book details

List price: $62.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 5/17/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English




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