金融
中国钱庄史 豆瓣
作者: 黄鉴晖 山西经济出版社 2005
《中国钱庄史》主要内容:中国钱庄有着400多年的历史,其间由小到大,由货币兑换商发展为银钱业,即由商业资本转变为生息资本,它在中国的社会经济发展中起过积极的作用,它成为中国银行业中分布最广泛的一业,凡是没有银行的城镇差不多都有钱庄。
长期以来,对于钱庄的历史发展过程及其资本性质,众说纷纭,一直没有一个比较正确的认识,更没有系统的研究和论述。诸如,在钱庄产生的时代上,有的说唐代的“柜房”就是钱庄,宋代的“交子”是由钱庄发行的,或者说钱庄是由钱铺发展的,甚至说钱庄和银号是产生在清代咸丰年间的。尽管也有人说钱庄产生在明代中叶,但却没有说明为什么产生在明代中叶。至于钱.庄绎营的业务和性质也说法各异,有说唐宋、明末清初的钱庄是经营存放款业务的,也有说钱庄在清末还是商业资本中的货币经营资本的。诸如此类,众说纷纭。
中华人民共和国成立后,钱庄同其他私营银行业一样,被改造成为公私合营的国家资本主义银行,在文化大革命中,一律被并入中国人民银行。改革开放后,私营钱庄曾萌发,但又被取缔。这究竟是怎么一回事,改革放后,是否私营钱庄就没有存在的必要?
基于上述种种考虑,作者依据多年来收集的资料和研究,写成《中国钱庄史》这《中国钱庄史》,以期读者对钱庄有个比较明确的了解,并希望与史学界诸专家和爱好者共同来讨论钱庄这个与国民经济有着紧密联系的事物的产生,衍变及其发展的过程,从中找到历史的规律,总结出可以借鉴的经验,为我国今天的现代化建设事业服务。同时,敬请广大读者和专家批评指正。
中国货币史 豆瓣
作者: 彭信威 上海人民出版社 2007
《中国货币史》主要内容:新中国建立后,公开宣传马克思主义,提倡运用历史唯物主义和辩证唯物主义的世界观和方法论于学术研究工作,提倡理论联系实际,实事求是,提倡双百方针,形成了好的学习风气。同时,大量的古钱币陆续出土,大量货币资料陆续被发掘、整理出来。钱币工作者也提高了认识,扩大了眼界,努力学习和运用马克思理论和方法,为古老钱币学向新的学科的转变,把旧的钱币学发展成为放在现代的学科结构(研究对象、目的、任务、范围等)、方法论和理论体系的基础上,同多学科相结合,利用现代科学检验手段的先进的社会主义钱币学准备了必要的条件。当然这个转变不是一朝一夕的事,是一个历史过程,目前这个转变正在开始,没有完成。实现这个转变需要经过很多学者创造性的、艰苦的努力。而在新中国建立以后,也逐步具备了这些出色的学者。彭信威先生就是勇敢地开拓钱币学研究新领域、新路子、新局面的出色学者。
Financial Modeling 豆瓣
作者: Benninga, Simon The MIT Press 2008 - 1
Too often, finance courses stop short of making a connection between textbook finance and the problems of real-world business. Financial Modeling bridges this gap between theory and practice by providing a nuts-and-bolts guide to solving common financial models with spreadsheets. Simon Benninga takes the reader step by step through each model, showing how it can be solved using Microsoft Excel. The long-awaited third edition of this standard text maintains the "cookbook" features and Excel dependence that have made the first and second editions so popular. It also offers significant new material, with new chapters covering such topics as bank valuation, the Black-Litterman approach to portfolio optimization, Monte Carlo methods and their applications to option pricing, and using array functions and formulas. Other chapters, including those on basic financial calculations, portfolio models, calculating the variance-covariance matrix, and generating random numbers, have been revised, with many offering substantially new and improved material. Other areas covered include financial statement modeling, leasing, standard portfolio problems, value at risk (VaR), real options, duration and immunization, and term structure modeling. Technical chapters treat such topics as data tables, matrices, the Gauss-Seidel method, and tips for using Excel. The last section of the text covers the Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) techniques needed for the book. The accompanying CD contains Excel worksheets and solutions to end-of-chapter exercises.
A Failure of Capitalism 豆瓣
作者: Richard A Posner Harvard University Press 2009 - 5
The financial and economic crisis that began in 2008 is the most alarming of our lifetime because of the warp-speed at which it is occurring. How could it have happened, especially after all that we’ve learned from the Great Depression? Why wasn’t it anticipated so that remedial steps could be taken to avoid or mitigate it? What can be done to reverse a slide into a full-blown depression? Why have the responses to date of the government and the economics profession been so lackluster? Richard Posner presents a concise and non-technical examination of this mother of all financial disasters and of the, as yet, stumbling efforts to cope with it. No previous acquaintance on the part of the reader with macroeconomics or the theory of finance is presupposed. This is a book for intelligent generalists that will interest specialists as well.
Among the facts and causes Posner identifies are: excess savings flowing in from Asia and the reckless lowering of interest rates by the Federal Reserve Board; the relation between executive compensation, short-term profit goals, and risky lending; the housing bubble fuelled by low interest rates, aggressive mortgage marketing, and loose regulations; the low savings rate of American people; and the highly leveraged balance sheets of large financial institutions.
Posner analyzes the two basic remedial approaches to the crisis, which correspond to the two theories of the cause of the Great Depression: the monetarist—that the Federal Reserve Board allowed the money supply to shrink, thus failing to prevent a disastrous deflation—and the Keynesian—that the depression was the product of a credit binge in the 1920’s, a stock-market crash, and the ensuing downward spiral in economic activity. Posner concludes that the pendulum swung too far and that our financial markets need to be more heavily regulated.
断层线 豆瓣
Fault lines:How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy
7.2 (5 个评分) 作者: [印度] 拉古拉迈·拉詹 译者: 刘念 / 蒋宗强 中信出版社 2011 - 7
华尔街从来不缺著书立传者,尤其是在金融危机后,各种原因分析、漏洞指陈的书籍一打又一打,但是他们都无法和拉詹的《断层线》相提并论,因为拉詹是为数极少的几个在金融危机前就预言风暴即将来临的经济学家!
美国《外交政策》杂志公布了“2010年度全球思想家”榜单,沃伦•巴菲特、比尔•盖茨领衔全球100名政治、经济、环保领域精英位列其上。该杂志今年首创“全球思想家读书俱乐部”,要求这些“全球最聪明的人”列出最近阅读的书单。而《断层线》名列榜首。
在这本书中,“厄运预言博士”拉古拉迈•拉詹挑明了一点——金融危机的始作俑者不是贪婪的银行家、沉睡的监管者、不负责任的借款人,而是 “全球收入的不平衡”! “金融崩溃的始作俑者是滞涨的收入和不断攀升物价之间的不平衡。”
拉詹还警告世人:我们的经济中存在着严重的缺陷,如果这些缺陷不能得到修补,那么一场潜在的更具毁灭性的危机正在等着我们!
拉古拉迈•拉詹给中国经济开出的药方虽然简单,却直击“要害”:中国的总体储蓄率近几年来之所以上升,是因为中国公司的收益和储蓄在增加。中国家庭消费之所以低,是因为中国家庭的收入在GDP中占据的比例远低于其他国家。如果中国要重新平衡增长,政府就必须开始善待家庭!
为什么我们的钱变薄了 豆瓣
作者: [美]默瑞•N.罗斯巴德 中信出版社 2008 - 9
金融危机当前,学点货币理论
易宪容(中国社会科学院金融发展室主任,北京)
莫瑞·罗斯巴德作为现代奥地利经济学派的旗手,尽管没有摘取到世俗所认为的现代经济学皇冠上的明珠,即诺贝尔经济学奖,但是,他开创的恢弘的经济思想体系将成为经济学思想不断的泉源。他作为当代经济学家中一个通才型的学者,从现实生活的点点滴滴入手,从行为的基本公理推演出了他的整个经济体系,表现出了经济学思想的永恒魅力及智慧。从这个意义上说,这正是罗斯巴德经济学生命之树常青的原因所在。
罗斯巴德的著作甚丰,有《人、经济与国家》、《美国大萧条》、《银行业的神话》等,这些著作都以深入浅出的方式道出了一个个深奥的经济问题。而摆在我们面前的这本书就是罗斯巴德著作中充满创造性思想的一本杰作。这本书从1963年首次出版发行后,连续多次再版,并被翻译成了多种文字。对广大读者来说,这本书是一本标准的货币理论启蒙读物。它以最浅显的语言、最鲜明的观点,把最抽象的货币理论的概念活灵活现地展现在读者面前,让所有的抽象概念都具象化,让读者感觉到原来如此抽象的货币问题就发生在你我之间,就发生在人们日常的经济交往中。
但是,具象化的货币并非只是我们日常生活中的“钱”,也并非只是一张张我们手中持有的纸币,更并非只是由政府来印制的钞票。通货膨胀也不只是物价的上涨,它不仅有其前因后果,还包含谁能够获利,谁又在通货膨胀中利益受损;谁喜欢通货膨胀,谁又不喜欢通货膨胀等问题。还有,货币一定是政府提供的吗?如果政府不提供货币,还可以通过什么方式来产生货币?如果政府来提供货币,它对金融市场会有什么影响?再就是,现代金融市场建立以来,为什么金融危机不断,其原因又何在?人类能够找到一条减少或避免这种金融危机不断发生的方式吗?等等。这些金融学上深奥的问题通过罗斯巴德的笔娓娓道来,即使从来不接触金融学的人,也会对金融学与货币理论的知识豁然领悟。
在罗斯巴德看来,在一个自由市场中,货币并不是什么组织或政府安排的,而是源于自由市场选择作为交换媒介的某种有用商品,其关键在于一般商品的“不可分割性”和“没有自己想要的东西”。假如一个人想用犁换几样不同的东西,像鸡蛋、面包和一套衣服,那么他该怎么做呢?他如何把犁大卸八块,将其中一部分交给农夫,剩下的给裁缝?就算东西可以分割,也不太可能让想交换的人同时找到对方,假设A想卖鸡蛋,B有一双鞋,如果A想要的是衣服,怎么可以硬是把两人凑到一起来交换呢?也就是说,由于具体商品交易的不可分割性及交易者交易的愿望,也就有了出现间接交易的需要。
这种间接交易,在尝试错误的过程中大幅扩充了经济的途径,成为现代经济文明发展的基础。因为在间接交换的机制下,你把东西卖掉后,换来的并非直接所需,将它卖掉才能得到真正想要的。这样,货币就在这种间接交换中产生了。这种对货币产生的解释具体、实在,交易者都可触、可摸、可感、可知,这样,发生在我们身边的货币理论就容易理解了。可以说,在本书中,罗斯巴德就是用这样的方式,把货币起源、货币性质、货币单位、货币功能等方面讨论得清清楚楚、一目了然。
本书对通货膨胀的解释并没有放在通货膨胀的产生、类型及治理上,而是放在通货膨胀对广大人民利益的影响上。在罗斯巴德看来,通货膨胀好比赛跑,看谁最先拿到新钱。先拿到钱者是那些与政治权力较近的人。因此,通货膨胀是政府的一种意愿,往往同政府权力的远近有关。离政府的权力越近,拿到新钱就越早,那么这些早入者受到通货膨胀的影响就越小。而因为通货膨胀惨遭损失的后知后觉者,显然比其他人晚取得新钱,受害最大。这些人不仅与政府权力远,而且都是依赖固定合约获得收益,而这些合约是在价格因通货膨胀而上涨前就签订的。因此,当通货膨胀出现时,这些人的利益首先受到损害,受到的伤害也最大。
正是从这个意义上说,通货膨胀表面上创造了经济的繁荣,但实际上则损害了广大人民的生活。同时,通货膨胀不仅改变了整个市场的经济预期,也成了掠夺广大民众财富的工具。而在这个过程中,与政治权力密切相关的利益集团获利最大,从而从根本上证明了通货膨胀对社会的危害性、对广大居民财富的掠夺性。正如罗斯巴德所言,通货膨胀(货币替代品增加,而没有相应金属货币存量的增加)从来对社会没有好处,只是牺牲一群人的利益来造福另一群人。通货膨胀是用欺诈的方式侵犯他人财产,在自由市场中是不会发生的,这就是现代社会通货膨胀的实质所在。
本书以布雷顿森林体系的瓦解为结尾,并且预言未来还将出现汇率的持续波动、债务的急剧增加、通货膨胀、危机、救市,以及对货币和信贷进行更集中控制的政治方面的冲动。事实上,近几年国际金融市场所发生的事情表明,国际金融市场的巨大波动无不是各国政府对金融市场过度干预和管制的结果。在各国国家政府对国际金融无所不能的管制过程中,不同的利益集团就会以不同的利益金融管制方式不完全地攫取或掠夺他人的利益,从而造成整个国际金融市场一个又一个的利益不平衡,而这种利益不平衡正是造成国际金融市场剧烈波动与危机的结果。
还有,罗斯巴德秉承奥地利学派的基本精神,一直保持着对政府干预市场的警惕。在他看来,政府对市场的干预不仅根本不能保护货币,而且反而会威胁到货币体系本身的完整性。政府的干预导致更多的弊端和更加严重的不稳定性。因此,政府的货币政策在货币体系中起到的作用是负面的,它只是为与政府组织紧密相关的利益集团对我们的社会采取集权控制打开了方便之门,这也是导致现代经济危机、货币危机和金融危机的根源。在本书中,罗斯巴德用西方世界出现的货币崩溃的简短历史作为例证,对此进行了生动的描述。
总之,这是一本绝大多数人都能轻松读下去的通俗的货币理论普及读物,但它并不是简单性的知识介绍,而是以深入浅出的方式,把最深奥的货币理论以最简单的方式表达出来,让读者对一般的货币理论可触、可感、可知,并从个体的日常生活中体悟到现代金融理论的真谛。
——转自《南方都市报》(日期:[2008年10月12日] 版次:[GB22] 版名:[阅读周刊 社科])http://epaper.nddaily.com/C/html/2008-10/12/content_595281.htm
银行的秘密 豆瓣
The Mystery of Banking
作者: 默里·罗斯巴德 译者: 李文浩 钟帅等 译 / 杨农 审校 清华大学出版社 2011 - 9
《NAFMII金融译丛·银行的秘密:揭开美联储的神秘面纱(第2版)》内容简介:当更多的人把金融危机的根源锁定在人的贪婪原罪时,罗斯巴德把思考的重点放在了政府与货币的关系上,并指出货币垄断才是构成经济危机的核心。所以,当经济危机来临,那种指望政府救市的理念和措施,不仅无助于市场的完善,甚至会拉长经济危机的期限。
The Case Against the Fed 豆瓣
作者: Murray N. Rothbard Ludwig Von Mises Institute 1994 - 6
The most powerful case against the American central bank ever written. This work begins with a mini-treatment of money and banking theory, and then plunges right in with the real history of the Federal Reserve System. Rothbard covers the struggle between competing elites and how they converged with the Fed.
Rothbard calls for the abolition of the central bank and a restoration of the gold standard. His popular treatment incorporates the best and most up-to-date scholarship on the Fed's origins and effects.
The contents of this volume include:
Introduction: Money and Politics
The Genesis of Money
What is the Optimum Quantity of Money?
Monetary Inflation and Counterfeiting
Legalized Counterfeiting
Loan Banking
Deposit Banking
Problems for the Fractional-Reserve Banker: The Criminal Law
Problems for the Fractional-Reserve Banker: Insolvency
Booms and Busts
Types of Warehouse Receipts
Enter the Central Bank
Easing the Limits on Bank Credit Expansion
The Central Bank Buys Assets
Origins of the Federal Reserve: The Advent of the National Banking System
Origins of the Federal Reserve: Wall Steet Discontent
Putting Cartelization Across: The Progressive Line
Putting a Central Bank Across: Manipulating a Movement, 1897-1902
The Central Bank Movement Revives, 1906-1910
Culmination at Jekyll Island
The Fed at Last: Morgan-Controlled Inflation
The New Deal and the Displacement of the Morgans
Deposit "Insurance"
How the Fed Rules and Inflates
What Can Be Done?
诚信的背后 豆瓣
作者: [美] 弗兰克·帕特诺伊 译者: 邵琰 当代中国出版社 2005 - 10
本书是作者以自己的亲身经历,记录了华尔街著名投资银行摩根士丹利,是怎样把一个耶鲁法学院的高才生,培养成了一名商场上的射击手。这些射击手,坐着飞机头等舱,出入豪华酒店,与世界各国的大公司交易着由世界顶级数学家、物理学家设计出来的金融产品。无数自以为非常成功的企业家和企业职业经理们,在只理解了华尔街出产的金融产品的一些皮毛后,就将几十亿美金送进了摩根士丹利的口袋。
在华尔街,如果有人说你是个好人,他的言外之意就是你是个笨蛋。对于大多数金融产品而言,买卖双方的盈亏之和等于零,也就是说一方的利润就是另一方的损失。本书作者所在的部门平均每人每年为公司赚1500万美元。书中提到的许多美国著名公司都是这些利润背后的牺牲品。
随着中国进入WTO,中国的金融市场也在快速地与国际金融接轨。在这重要的历史时期,本书几乎就是一本教科书。它教我们提高对金融产品的风险认识,防止华尔街银行家们利用我们对金融产品的无知来收学费。
前一时期发生的中航油事件,和摩根士丹利在中国收购的第一笔银行不良资产,都应该让我们深深地叹口气:要是早点读读《诚信的背后》就好了。
聪明的投资者 豆瓣 Goodreads
The intelligent investor
8.4 (14 个评分) 作者: 本杰明·格雷厄姆 / Benjamin Graham 译者: 王中华 / 黄一义 人民邮电出版社 2010 - 8
这是一本投资实务领域的世界级和世纪级的经典著作,自从1949年首次出版以来,本书即成为股市上的《圣经》。本修订版在完整保留格雷厄姆原著1973年第4版的基础上,由贾森•兹威格根据近40年尤其是世纪之交全球股市的大动荡现实,进一步检验和佐证了价值投资理论。其中大量的注释和每章之后的点评非常有价值。股神巴菲特特为本书撰写的序言和评论是这个版本的又一个亮点。
本书首先明确了“投资”与“投机”的区别,指出聪明的投资者当如何确定预期收益。本书着重介绍防御型投资者与积极型投资者的投资组合策略,论述了投资者如何应对市场波动。本书还对基金投资、投资者与投资顾问的关系、普通投资者证券分析的一般方法、防御型投资者与积极型投资者的证券选择、可转换证券及认股权证等问题进行了详细阐述。在本书后面,作者列举分析了几组案例,论述了股息政策,最后着重分析了作为投资中心思想的“安全性”问题。
本书主要面向个人投资者,旨在对普通人在投资策略的选择和执行方面提供相应的指导。本书不是一本教人“如何成为百万富翁”的书籍,而更多地将注意力集中在投资的原理和投资者的态度方面,指导投资者避免陷入一些经常性的错误之中。
日知录校注(上中下) 豆瓣
作者: 顾炎武 / 陈垣(校注) 译者: 陈垣 注解 安徽大学 2007 - 8
日知绿是顾炎武一生学问和思想的结晶,自言「平生之志舆业皆在其中」。
上世纪三十年代前期,是援庵先生学术、教学与思想进一步深化的时期。
在学术上,他对宗教史、元史以及历史文献学的几个分支史讳学、校勘学、年代学的研究.这时都已取得了重要的成就,酝酿着新的研究课题。
從自由到壟斷(全2書) 豆瓣
作者: 朱嘉明 遠流出版 2012 - 1
凱恩斯在《貨幣論》裡頭有一句話:「如果以貨幣為主線,重新撰寫經濟史,那將是相當激動人心的。」這部《從自由到壟斷──中國貨幣兩千年》就是從貨幣經濟的角度,對中國歷史的一番梳理和解讀。
在這部耗時十年完成的著作,朱嘉明不僅思考當年中國大陸經濟改革之後,人民幣如何從沒有「含金量」、同時也不具備一般貨幣功能的通貨,走向市場經濟、進而發生通貨膨漲的過程,他更從歷史的脈絡,去看待貨幣在中國過去兩千年歷史中所扮演的角色,因而有了許多新的見解。
秦始皇滅六國,中國從此走入中央集權的皇權統治,但其中當時的統治技術還不足以管理這麼大的國家,因而貨幣經濟這一塊,向來是歷朝歷代鞭長莫及的,也因此,中國的貨幣經濟向來表現出濃厚的自由經濟色彩。而秦朝本身的滅亡,很大一部分原因是統一幣制,造成通貨緊縮,「錢貴物賤」。
中國向來是以政治力量的強弱來評判一個朝代的表現。所以像南宋,一般認為是不及格的朝代,但是從貨幣經濟的角度來看南宋,由於南宋的商品經濟非常發達,所積累的財富足以支撐與蒙古長達三十年的軍事對抗,甚至,在蒙古滅宋之後,宋朝的貴金屬財富成為蒙古維持一個橫跨歐亞帝國的資本。
像這樣不同於一般看待歷史的見解,在書中處處都是。而這本書就現實層面最重要的關注在於:國民政府在中國大陸所做的法幣改革以失敗告終,且為人民幣登場鋪了路。在作者眼中,人民幣是法幣的一種延續,而其基本想法都與凱因斯的貨幣思想相關。
目前的人民幣是一種「雙重」壟斷的貨幣,國家對貨幣發行權的壟斷和對支持人民幣的物資資源的壟斷。人民幣成了完全依賴於政府和國家信用的紙幣。在人民幣制度下,中國人民財富的形態只有人民幣,而人民幣為國家壟斷,國家透過人民幣供給數量和物價的不斷變動,實現國民財富的重分配。
在這樣的情形下來看人民幣的國際化、能否取代美元,以及如何控制通貨膨脹,都存在許多變數,本書在這部份,恰可提出多角度的觀照。
富可敌国 豆瓣
More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite
作者: [美] 塞巴斯蒂安·马拉比 译者: 徐煦 中国人民大学出版社 2011 - 1
这是一部权威的对冲基金发展史,充满了对美国金融界人物戏剧性沉浮的引人入胜描述。在本书中,华尔街的生存之道、美国金融界的商业文化被演绎得出神入化。
本书作者对该行业进行了包括300个小时访谈和无数内部文件在内的深入调查,并在此基础上,讲述了关于对冲基金鲜为人知的故事:从该行业的鼻祖阿尔弗雷德•温斯洛•琼斯到乔治•索罗斯,再到许多其他不那么出名但在这个领域同样有影响力的人物,从1987年的股市暴跌,到网络泡沫,再到抵押贷款证券的崩溃。在这个过程中,对冲基金参透了市场的玄机,不断赚取巨额财富。它们的创新改变了世界,孕育了特殊金融工具的新市场,改写了资本主义的规则。
本书不仅仅是一部历史,更是通向未来金融体系的窗口。
Finance and the Good Society 豆瓣 Goodreads
Finance and the Good Society
作者: Robert J. Shiller Princeton University Press 2012 - 3
The reputation of the financial industry could hardly be worse than it is today in the painful aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. New York Times best-selling economist Robert Shiller is no apologist for the sins of finance--he is probably the only person to have predicted both the stock market bubble of 2000 and the real estate bubble that led up to the subprime mortgage meltdown. But in this important and timely book, Shiller argues that, rather than condemning finance, we need to reclaim it for the common good. He makes a powerful case for recognizing that finance, far from being a parasite on society, is one of the most powerful tools we have for solving our common problems and increasing the general well-being. We need more financial innovation--not less--and finance should play a larger role in helping society achieve its goals.
Challenging the public and its leaders to rethink finance and its role in society, Shiller argues that finance should be defined not merely as the manipulation of money or the management of risk but as the stewardship of society's assets. He explains how people in financial careers--from CEO, investment manager, and banker to insurer, lawyer, and regulator--can and do manage, protect, and increase these assets. He describes how finance has historically contributed to the good of society through inventions such as insurance, mortgages, savings accounts, and pensions, and argues that we need to envision new ways to rechannel financial creativity to benefit society as a whole.
Ultimately, Shiller shows how society can once again harness the power of finance for the greater good.
Endorsements:
"Finance and the Good Society is a provocative call for understanding, then reinventing finance as a force that could create inclusive prosperity. Shiller acknowledges the excesses, inequalities, and unfortunate incentives to sleaziness in the current financial system but says it doesn't have to be that way. An important book for those who seek change."--Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School Professor and author of SuperCorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profit, Growth, and Social Good
"Drawing from history, economic theory, and keen observation of our economy, Robert Shiller brings a fresh perspective to a big issue--the role of finance in our society. He urges us to overcome the popular misperception that all finance is sleazy and to think broadly about how we can harness its power for the benefit of society as a whole."--Darrell Duffie, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
"Many MBA students are fascinated by the world of finance but wary of entering it because they perceive it as declining and marred by unethical behavior. This book will show them why finance is and should be a vital part of the good society's solution, rather than its problem. No other book does this with more authority or credibility."--Shlomo Maital, professor emeritus, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
"This is an overflowing feast of ideas and facts--from Adam Smith to neuroscience to casino design--that will convince intelligent readers who think of finance as an arcane subject that it is not just interesting but even entertaining."--Robert Wade, London School of Economics and Political Science
货币、银行信贷与经济周期 豆瓣
Money,Bank Credit and Economic Cycles
作者: [西] 赫苏斯·韦尔塔·德索托 译者: 葛亚非 / 刘芳 三辉图书/电子工业出版社 2012 - 6
《货币、银行信贷与经济周期》在这本跨学科的巨著中,作者以翔实的史料,充分的文献考证以及严谨的理论论证,展现了金融业和银行的发展史,介绍了货币不规则存管合约的法理本质,部分准备金制度的历史沿革,经济学界关于货币银行的主要观点以及奥地利学派关于货币、银行信贷系统的理论。《货币、银行信贷与经济周期》气势恢宏,细节引人入胜,对于想了解金融史、经济史的读者,绝对是超值的读本。
Globalizing Capital 豆瓣
作者: Barry Eichengreen Princeton University Press 2008 - 9
First published more than a decade ago, "Globalizing Capital" remains an indispensable part of the economic literature today. Written by renowned economist Barry Eichengreen, this classic book emphasizes the importance of the international monetary system for understanding the international economy. Brief and lucid, "Globalizing Capital" is intended not only for economists, but also a general audience of historians, political scientists, professionals in government and business, and anyone with a broad interest in international relations.Eichengreen demonstrates that the international monetary system can be understood and effectively governed only if it is seen as a historical phenomenon extending from the period of the gold standard to today's world of fluctuating prices. This updated edition continues to document the effect of floating exchange rates and contains a new chapter on the Asian financial crisis, the advent of the euro, the future of the dollar, and related topics. "Globalizing Capital" shows how these and other recent developments can be put in perspective only once their political and historical contexts are understood.
纸与铁 豆瓣
Paper and Iron: Hamburg Business and German Politics in the Era of Inflation, 1897-1927
作者: [英国] 尼尔·弗格森 中信出版社 2012 - 6
《纸与铁》提出了全新的观点,以颇有影响力的汉堡工商界为切入点,分析了为通货膨胀政策辩护的那些理由存在的漏洞,指出通货膨胀严重危害了德国经济,侵蚀了资产阶级社会的根基,使魏玛共和国这个福利国家失信于民。此外,通货膨胀也没能使赔款减少。作者剖析了长期以来德国政治经济体系的弊端。不仅揭示了魏玛共和国的失败根源可以追溯到威廉德国时期,而且还为分析第三帝国的兴起提供了不同的视角。在《纸与铁》德国经济灾难和政治之间关系的生动阐述中,相信你一定会从一个全新的角度理解德国通胀。
1923年德国的恶性通货膨胀是历史上少数影响深远的经济事件之一,人们普遍认为它是导致希特勒发迹的根源。然而,近年来有很多历史学家认为,通货膨胀政策不但刺激了经济增长,而且还帮助德国减少了赔款,因此对于1918年以后的德国是利大于弊。当时的德国没有其他可行的替代方案。
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Models.Behaving.Badly: Why Confusing Illusion with Reality Can Lead to Disaster, on Wall Street and in Life Goodreads 豆瓣
作者: Emanuel Derman Free Press 2011 - 10 其它标题: Models.Behaving.Badly
Emanuel Derman was a quantitative analyst (Quant) at Goldman Sachs, one of the financial engineers whose mathematical models usurped traders' intuition on Wall Street. The reliance traders put on such quantitative analysis was catastrophic for the economy, setting off the series of financial crises that began to erupt in 2007 with the mortgage crisis and from which we're still recovering. Here Derman looks at why people--bankers in particular--still put so much faith in these models, and why it's a terrible mistake to do so. Though financial models imitate the style of physics by using the language of mathematics, ultimately they deal with human beings. Their similarity confuses the fundamental difference between the aims and possible achievements of the phsyics world and that of the financial world. When we make a model involving human beings, we are trying to force the ugly stepsister's foot into Cinderella's pretty glass slipper.  It doesn't fit without cutting off some of the essential parts. Physicists and economists have been too enthusiastic to recognize the limits of their equations in the sphere of human behavior--which of course is what economics is all about. 
Models.Behaving.Badly. includes a personal account Derman's childhood encounter with failed models--the utopia of the kibbutz, his experience as a physicist on Wall Street, and a look at the models quants generated: the benefits they brought and the problems they caused. Derman takes a close look at what a model is, and then he highlights the differences between the success of modeling in physics and its relative failure in economics.  Describing the collapse of the subprime mortgage CDO market in 2007, Derman urges us to stop relying on these models where possible, and offers suggestions for mending these models where they might still do some good.  This is a fascinating, lyrical, and very human look behind the curtain at the intersection between mathematics and human nature.
My Life as a Quant 豆瓣 Goodreads
作者: Emanuel Derman Wiley 2004 - 9
Emanuel Derman was one of the first physicists to move to Wall Street, and his career paralleled the growth of quantitative trading over the past twenty years. In My Life as a Quant, he traces his transformation from ambitious young scientist to managing director and head of the renowned Quantitative Strategies group at Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Derman’s tale recounts his adventures with quants, traders and other high fliers on Wall Street as he became the best-known quant in the business. He describes the struggles of research and his interactions with an assorted cast of famous scientists. He relates his impressions of some of the most creative minds on Wall Street, including Fischer Black, with whom he collaborated on the widely used Black-Derman-Toy model of interest rates. Throughout his story he reflects on the appropriate way to apply the refined methods of physics to the hurly-burly world of markets and the people that inhabit them.