PETER L. BERNSTEIN is President of Peter L. Bernstein, Inc., economic consultants to institutional investors. Mr. Bernstein is the author of six books in economics and finance, including the bestselling Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street, as well as many articles in the professional and popular press. He is the Editor of The Portable MBA in Investment (Wiley) and was the Founding Editor of The Journal of Portfolio Management.
A Business Week, New York Times Business, and USA Today Bestseller
"Ambitious and readable . . . an engaging introduction to the oddsmakers, whom Bernstein regards as true humanists helping to release mankind from the choke holds of superstition and fatalism." -The New York Times
"An extraordinarily entertaining and informative book." -The Wall Street Journal
"A lively panoramic book . . . Against the Gods sets up an ambitious premise and then delivers on it." -Business Week
"Deserves to be, and surely will be, widely read." -The Economist
"[A] challenging book, one that may change forever the way people think about the world." -Worth
"No one else could have written a book of such central importance with so much charm and excitement." -Robert Heilbroner author, The Worldly Philosophers
"With his wonderful knowledge of the history and current manifestations of risk, Peter Bernstein brings us Against the Gods. Nothing like it will come out of the financial world this year or ever. I speak carefully: no one should miss it." -John Kenneth Galbraith Professor of Economics Emeritus, Harvard University
In this unique exploration of the role of risk in our society, Peter Bernstein argues that the notion of bringing risk under control is one of the central ideas that distinguishes modern times from the distant past. Against the Gods chronicles the remarkable intellectual adventure that liberated humanity from oracles and soothsayers by means of the powerful tools of risk management that are available to us today.
"An extremely readable history of risk." -Barron's
"Fascinating . . . this challenging volume will help you understand the uncertainties that every investor must face." -Money
"A singular achievement." -Times Literary Supplement
"There's a growing market for savants who can render the recondite intelligibly-witness Stephen Jay Gould (natural history), Oliver Sacks (disease), Richard Dawkins (heredity), James Gleick (physics), Paul Krugman (economics)-and Bernstein would mingle well in their company." -The Australian
这是一部讲述人类计量风险方法历史的书,对于想要了解风险管理进程的人来说,很值得一读。但是我读后还是感觉有些存在心中的疑问没有得到解答。 书的扉页也说了,历史上对于风险的探索一直存在两种声音。作者作为投资顾问,一直是站在用数理方法精确计量、并以此作未来决策的...
评分首先,这是一本讲概率史的书,也有部分统计史的内容。内容不错,将概率、统计的发展与在金融、投资学上的应用联系了起来,揭示了其一脉相承的关系。 学概率统计时如果配合一读,会增加一些思想的感官认识。 其次,翻译比较差。许多专有名词和术语都错了,译者的前言也没有什么...
评分I recommend reading this book for several reasons: 1. It's easy to read. I would say too easy, like the author was talking to some pupils. But the insight behind is unparallelly profound. 2. The book was written beautifully and elegantly. 3. The book dep...
评分回答了困扰我很久的几个问题: 统计中随机和确定的本质区别; correlation和因果关系的关系; CAPM中为何risk以此方式度量 且从对不确定性的处理过程中 感受到从认识论而不是本体论的角度处理因果关系的威力 对我而言一次重大的思想变革 读者尽管打没用哈,不是正二八经的书...
It is wordy,but,this book illustrated some common reasons about dealing with risks.
评分trader必读。
评分这个作者有很多书,每一个的主题都让我觉得很有深度,也很想一读,可是每次都读得百转千回,痛苦无比,这文笔实在是欣赏不来
评分It is wordy,but,this book illustrated some common reasons about dealing with risks.
评分trader必读。
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