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The greatest trades of all time

top traders making big profits from the crash of 1929 to today

How top traders made huge profits during the most momentous market events of the past century Financial and commodity markets are characterized by periodic crashes and upside explosions. In retrospect, the reasons behind these abrupt movements often seem very clear, but generally few people understand ...

The liberty of servants

Berlusconi's Italy

Italy is a country of free political institutions, yet it has become a nation of servile courtesans, with Silvio Berlusconi as their prince. This is the controversial argument that Italian political philosopher and noted Machiavelli biographer Maurizio Viroli puts forward in "The Liberty of Servants ...

Data-Driven business decisions

A hands-on guide to the use of quantitative methods and software for making successful business decisions The appropriate use of quantitative methods lies at the core of successful decisions made by managers, researchers, and students in the field of business. Providing a framework for the ...

Grow globally

opportunities for your middle-market company around the world

Discover proven strategies and solutions for successful participation in the global market With less than fifty percent of middle market US companies succeeding at going global, corporate executives need to know how to build effective global execution platforms that will allow their organizations to thrive ...

The risk premium factor

a new model for understanding the volatile forces that drive stock prices

This is a radical, definitive explanation of the link between loss aversion theory, the equity risk premium and stock price, and how to profit from it. "The Risk Premium Factor" presents and proves a radical new theory that explains the stock market, offering a quantitative ...

Equity valuation and portfolio management

A detailed look at equity valuation and portfolio management Equity valuation is a method of valuing stock prices using fundamental analysis to determine the worth of the business and discover investment opportunities. In Equity Valuation and Portfolio Management Frank J. Fabozzi and Harry M. Markowitz ...

Dynamics copula methods in finance

The latest tools and techniques for pricing and risk management This book introduces readers to the use of copula functions to represent the dynamics of financial assets and risk factors, integrated temporal and cross-section applications. The first part of the book will briefly introduce the ...

Complexity

a guided tour

What enables individually simple insects like ants to act with such precision and purpose as a group? How do trillions of neurons produce something as extraordinarily complex as consciousness? In this remarkably clear and companionable book, leading complex systems scientist Melanie Mitchell provides an intimate ...

Debating the ethics of inmigration

is there a right to exclude?

Do states have the right to prevent potential immigrants from crossing their borders, or should people have the freedom to migrate and settle wherever they wish? Christopher Heath Wellman and Phillip Cole develop and defend opposing answers to this timely and important question. Appealing to ...

Pathways to polling

crisis, cooperation, and the making of public opinion professions

In midcentury America, the public opinion polling enterprise faced a crisis of legitimacy. Every major polling firm predicted a win for Thomas Dewey over Harry Truman in the 1948 presidential election--and of course they all got it wrong. This failure generated considerable criticisms of polling ...

Casualties of credit

the english financial revolution, 1620-1720

Modern credit, developed during the financial revolution of 1620¬--1720, laid the foundation for England's political, military, and economic dominance in the eighteenth century. Possessed of a generally circulating credit currency, a modern national debt, and sophisticated financial markets, England developed a fiscal-military state ...

Optimal control theory with applications in economics

This book bridges optimal control theory and economics, discussing ordinary differential equations, optimal control, game theory, and mechanism design in one volume. Technically rigorous and largely self-contained, it provides an introduction to the use of optimal control theory for deterministic continuous-time systems in economics. The ...

The crisis of capitalist democracy

Following up on his timely and well-received book, "A Failure of Capitalism", Richard Posner steps back to take a longer view of the continuing crisis of democratic capitalism as the American and world economies crawl gradually back from the depths to which they had fallen ...

Gran diccionario del vino

Para los griegos, el concepto de patria estaba ligado a "la tierra donce crecen el trigo, la viña y el olivo", y esa idea es importante en esta obra. El cultivo de la vid y de su producto, el vino, está íntimamente ligado al desarrollo ...

Trenes

los primeros años del ferrocarril

Trains – The Early Years revela cómo la distancia fue doblegada por el ferrocarril. Imponentes imágenes de locomotoras avanzando a toda velocidad a través de paisajes lejanos y típicos son evidencias elocuentes.

Hombre solo

En los dibujos que reúne aquí el genial Mingote nos muestra con ironía y agudeza lo que piensa sobre la carrera de obstáculos que es la vida, lo surrealista que puede llegar a ser esa carrera y la soledad en que la realizamos. El lector ...

Londres para niños

Por fin llega a España una de las guías de viajes más premiadas en todo el mundo: Londres para niños, escrita e ilustrada por el famoso ilustrador checo Jindra Capek. Se trata de una colección con la que los niños recorrerán las principales ciudades del ...

Madrid para niños

Tras la buena acogida de Barcelona para niños, primer título de la colección Soñando ciudades, tenemos el placer de presentaros Madrid para niños. Se trata de una colección con la que los niños recorrerán las principales ciudades del mundo. Todas estas guías cuentan con un ...

La flauta mágica + CD-ROM

Tejida con palabras y música, esta historia cuenta las aventuras y las pruebas de Tamino, un joven príncipe que quería descubrir el mundo y la sabiduría y conquistar el amor de la bella Pamina. La lectura del cuento, simultánea con la audición de los fragmentos ...

Juego de tronos. Canción de hielo y fuego I

Tras el largo verano, el invierno se acerca a los Siete Reinos. Lord Eddard Stark, señor de Invernalia, deja sus dominios para unirse a la corte de su amigo el rey Robert Baratheon, llamado el Usurpador, hombre díscolo y otrora guerrero audaz cuyas mayores aficiones ...