暴徒、救星与市场：金融与政治中的公众见解 Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets
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作者： William Bonner等著
出 版 社： Oxford University Press USA
出版时间： 2007-8-1字数：版次： 1页数： 424印刷时间： 2007/08/01开本： 16开印次： 1纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9780470112328包装： 精装内容简介
Why Going Against the Grain Pays.
Bestselling author Bill Bonner has long been a maverick observer of the financial and political world, sharpening his sardonic wit, in particular, on the vagaries of the investing public. Market booms and busts, tulip manias and dotcom bubbles, venture capitalists and vulture funds, he lets you know, are best explained not by dry statistics and obscure theories but by the metaphors and analogies of literature.
Now, in Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets, Bonner and freelance journalist Lila Rajiva use literary economics to offer broader insights into mass behavior and its devastating effects on society. Why is it, they ask, that perfectly sane and responsible individuals can get together, and by some bizarre alchemy turn into an irrational mob? What makes them trust charlatans and demagogues who manipulate their worst instincts? Why do they abandon good sense, good behavior and good taste when an empty slogan is waved in front of them. Why is the road to hell paved with so many sterling intentions? Why is there a fool on every corner and a knave in every public office?
In attempting an answer, the authors weave a light-hearted journey through history, politics and finance to show group think at work in an improbable array of instances, from medieval crusades to the architectural follies of hedge-fund managers. Their journey takes them ultimately to the desk of the chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank and to a cautionary tale of the current bubble economy. They warn that the gush of credit let loose by Alan Greenspan and multiplied by the sophisticated number games of Wall Street whizzes is fraught with perils for the unwary. Boom without end, pronounces The Street. But Bonner and Rajiva are more cynical. When the higher math and the greater greed come together, watch out below!
Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets ends by giving concrete advice on how readers can avoid what the authors call the public spectacle of modern finance, and become, instead, private investors - knowing their own mind and following their own intuitions. The authors have no gimmicks to offer here - but instead give a better understanding of the dynamics of market behavior, allowing prudent investors to protect themselves from the fads and follies of the investment markets.
作者简介：
William (Bill) Bonner is President and CEO of Agora Inc., one of the world's largest financial newsletter companies (www.agorafinancial.com). He is the creator of the Daily Reckoning, a contrarian financial newsletter (www.dailyreckoning.com). Bonner is also the author, with Addison Wiggin, of the international bestsellers Financial Reckoning Day and Empire of Debt.
目录
Part One A Critique of Impure Reason
Chapter 1 Do-Gooders Gone Bad
Chapter 2 Love in the Time of Viagra
Chapter 3 The Transit of Venus
Part Two Witch Hunts and War Drums
Chapter 4 The Devil Made Them Do It
Chapter 5 Words of War
Part Three Militant Messiahs
Chapter 6 War and Remembrance
Chapter 7 Empire of Delusion
Chapter 8 Heroes of the Revolution
Part Four Flattening the Globe
Chapter 9 The Number Game
Chapter 10 The Flat Earth Society
Chapter 11 What the Yonghy Bonghy Bo Didn't Know
Part Five The Bubble Kings
Chapter 12 Fin de Bubble
Chapter 13 The Million Dollar Trailer
Chapter 14 Central Bank Bamboozle
Chapter 15 The Mother of the Mother of All Bubbles
Part Six Far From the Madding Mob
Chapter 16 How Not to be Chumped by Wall Street
Chapter 17 The Dupe of Hearts
Notes
Index
