Against the Gods

PETER L. BERNSTEIN is President of Peter L. Bernstein, Inc., economic consultants to institutional advisors and corporations. His semimonthly analysis of the capital markets and the real economy, Economics and Portfolio Strategy, is read by managers and owners of investments totaling over one trillion dollars. Mr. Bernstein is the author of many articles in the professional and popular press, as well as six books in economics and finance, including the bestselling Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street. He is the coeditor of Investment Management (Wiley), and was the first editor of The Journal of Portfolio Management.

出版者:Simon & Schuster Audio

作者:Peter L. Bernstein

页数:0

出版时间:1997-3-1

价格:USD 24.00

装帧:Audio Cassette

isbn号码:9780671576462

图书标签:经济risk

Peter Bernstein argues that the notion of bringing risk under control is one of the central ideas that distinguishes modern times from the more distant past. When investors buy stocks, surgeons perform operations, entrepreneurs launch new businesses, and politicians run for office, risk is their inescapable partner. Bernstein clarifies the major components of risk, explaining how they can be applied to our professional endeavors.

读后感

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...  

花了几个月的时间，断断续续读这本英文畅销书，脑子里首先填了一堆关于赌博工具的英文单词。这是一部以概率理论发展史为主线的畅销书（在国内的话，畅销谈不上，此书的读者群较窄，针对金融理论爱好者），本书像一部记录片的脚本。题目Against the God书中主题与金融关系没那么...  

每次看到《against the gods: The remarkable story of risk》出现在我视线范围内，我就不经意的想起莫里斯·克莱因的《古今数学思想史》。 中译本《与天为敌》实际上就是对于赌博或者概率一部简洁而优雅的历史智慧树，在我心中的地位，不亚于上面提到的克莱因的《古今数学思...  

The book was recommended by statistic and finance professors of IUB during college years. It wan't until after graduation that I started to read it, and its interesting stories certainly refreshed my memories of joys i had in statistical and finance classes...