The Wisdom of Finance: Discovering Humanity in the World of Risk and Return
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| Rating | : | 4.22 (744 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01I4FPMHS |
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| Number of Pages | : | 512 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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This book captures Desai’s lucid exploration of the ideas of finance as seen through the unusual prism of the humanities. In Desai’s vision, the principles of finance also provide answers to critical questions in our lives. The mix of finance and the humanities creates unusual pairings: Jane Austen and Anthony Trollope are guides to risk management; Jeff Koons becomes an advocate of leverage; and Mel Brooks’s The Producers teaches us about fiduciary responsibility. With incisive wit and irony, his lecture drew upon a rich knowledge of literature, film, history, and philosophy to explain the inner workings of finance in a manner that has never been seen before. But, what happened to the fairest, noblest, and finest profession that de la Vega saw? De la Vega hit on an essential truth that has been forgotten: finance can be just as principled, life-affirming, and worthy as it can be fraught with questionable practices. Today, finance is shrouded in mystery for outsiders, while many insiders are uneasy with the disrepute of their profession. How can finance become more accessible and also recover its nobility? Harvard Business School professor Mihir Desai, in his “last lecture&
Desai is an award-winning professor of finance at Harvard Business School and a professor of law at Harvard Law School. His opinion pieces have appeared in the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and the Harvard Business Review, and he has testified several times before congressional bodies.. His areas of expertise include international finance, corporate finance, and tax
It's the perfect book for 2017 Witty and wise, this book demystifies a number of assumptions I had held for a long time. It's the perfect book for 2017, when we can't be sure what the government is going to do next. This book helps me, a confused citizen, see facts and trends in a new light.. This Book is DIFFERENT - In a Good Way! One of the best books on finance that I've ever read. Professor Desai is able to show how life and all its messiness and complex is reflected in the world of finance and vice versa. It's really a different kind of book. He takes a complex subject matter and marries it with the humanities in such a seaml. Gotham reader said Willa Cather, Adam Smith and Gordon Gekko: a fascinating look at finance. Finally! A book that combines finance and literature. I am so grateful to have found Prof. Desai's thought provoking and fascinating book; it has already sparked interesting conversation in my household about the power of finance and it's role in our lives as individuals and as Americans. This is a grea
In this book he uses his skills to provide a fascinating new perspective on modern finance, showing how the main concepts have parallels in literature and the arts. Students of finance will learn literature, students of literature will learn finance, and everybody will learn something.'' --Oliver Hart, 2016 Nobel Laureate in Economics ''For those of us who have long believed that the field of finance was more than a way to make a good living, Mihir Desai has written a liberating book. It's a refreshing approach to what can be a turgid topic, and it can provide practitioners with a new appreciation (and understanding) of their role in their companies, the industry, and in the broader economy.'' --Vikram Pandit, Chairman and CEO of The Orogen Group and former CEO of Citigroup. ''In The Wisdom of Finance, Mihir Desai masterfully achieves two goa