I enjoyed reading it. I can see why some might say he and his book represent “bears”, but I think Robert Shiller is more about rationality and why the public’s perception of a possible infinite growth is just a dream.
I think this second edition came out in 2005, some time before all the talk [...]
Irrational Exuberance by Robert J. Shiller
August 21st, 2008 · No Comments · Books · Reviews
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Fortune’s Formula : The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street by William Poundstone
January 20th, 2006 · No Comments · Books · Reviews
This is one of the most fun reading I’ve done recently. I think I saw it mentioned in BusinessWeek. The words that caught my interest was “gambling”, “stock market”, and “Claude Shannon“. Especially Late Dr. Shannon. Ever since I got involved in video and audio codec works, I’ve been interested in [...]
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Freakonomics : A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
November 21st, 2005 · No Comments · Books · Reviews
It was an interesting and easy read: Not really academic and not too technical. I think I can understand why some of the Amazon.com readers’ reviews were critical of the book’s non-technical contents. But this is really a lighter reading than anything else.
Although the writers seem to say the book does not have [...]
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The Roaring Nineties: A New History of the World’s Most Prosperous Decade by Joseph E. Stiglitz
June 4th, 2004 · No Comments · Books · Reviews
I was held up with reading Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1), a very long and “boring” book by Neal Stephenson. After several months, I realized that I am never going to finish this, so I stopped about a third into it. I had other books to read.
Anyway, the next one I picked [...]
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