Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk
New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1996. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. xi, [3], 383, [3] p. Illustrations, black & white. Notes. Bibliography. Name Index. Subject Index. Peter Lewyn Bernstein (January 22, 1919 June 5, 2009) was an American financial historian, economist and educator whose development and refinement of the efficient-market hypothesis made him one of the country's best authorities in presenting investment economics to the public. In the aftermath of the Pearl Harbor attack, he joined the Air Force assigned to the Office of Strategic Services in the European theater. In 1951, Bernstein took over, at family insistence, the management of his late father's wealth management firm, Bernstein-Macaulay Inc., where he personally managed billions of dollars of individual and institutional portfolios. Against The Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk won the Edwin G. Booz Prize for the most insightful, innovative management book published in 1996. It was awarded the Clarence Arthur Kelp/Elizur Wright Memorial Award from The American Risk and Insurance Association (ARIA) as an outstanding contribution to the literature of risk and insurance. Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket. Price clipped. DJ has slight wear and soiling.
Keywords: Kenneth Arrow, Bernoulli, Girolamo Cardano, Francis Galton, John Maynard Keynes, Quetelet, Oskar Morganstern, von Neumann, Richard Thaler
ISBN: 9780471121046
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Price: $60.00