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The Misbehavior of Markets
- A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence
- De: Benoit Mandelbrot, Richard L. Hudson
- Narrado por: Jason Olazabal
- Duración: 10 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 551
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 445
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 443
In his first book for a general audience, Mandelbrot, with co-author Richard L. Hudson, shows how the dominant way of thinking about the behavior of markets-a set of mathematical assumptions a century old and still learned by every MBA and financier in the world-simply does not work. As he did for the physical world in his classic The Fractal Geometry of Nature, Mandelbrot here uses fractal geometry to propose a new, more accurate way of describing market behavior.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Where are the PDF?
- De RD en 03-30-19
- The Misbehavior of Markets
- A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence
- De: Benoit Mandelbrot, Richard L. Hudson
- Narrado por: Jason Olazabal
infuriating
Revisado: 10-01-20
There are two sayings that sum up this book:
"if all you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail" and
"if you torture the data long enough, it will confess"
mandelbrot may be a genius but this adventure has all the hallmarks of numerology.
skip this book and find a better one written by someone who isn't trying to fit everything to the formula they invented.
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Catch and Kill
- Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
- De: Ronan Farrow
- Narrado por: Ronan Farrow
- Duración: 10 h y 43 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 19,016
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 16,894
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 16,802
In 2017, a routine network television investigation led to a story only whispered about: one of Hollywood’s most powerful producers was a predator, protected by fear, wealth, and a conspiracy of silence. As Farrow drew closer to the truth, shadowy operatives, from high-priced lawyers to elite war-hardened spies, mounted a secret campaign of intimidation, threatening his career, following his every move, and weaponizing an account of abuse in his own family.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent book
- De Jonathan Knodel en 10-16-19
- Catch and Kill
- Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
- De: Ronan Farrow
- Narrado por: Ronan Farrow
an amazing book everybody should read
Revisado: 01-10-20
it's truly amazing how creepy and terrible the world really is. this book shows what happens when terrible people get into power.
also, Ronan: nice job on the impersonations!
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Narrative Economics
- How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events
- De: Robert J. Shiller
- Narrado por: Susan Osman, Robert J. Shiller - introduction
- Duración: 11 h y 7 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 454
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 362
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 360
Spread through the public in the form of popular stories, ideas can go viral and move markets - whether it's the belief that tech stocks can only go up or that housing prices never fall. Whether true or false, stories like these - transmitted by word of mouth, by the news media, and increasingly by social media - drive the economy by driving our decisions about how and where to invest, how much to spend and save, and more. But despite the obvious importance of such stories, most economists have paid little attention to them. Narrative Economics sets out to change that.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Such boring narration (returned)
- De William J Brown en 10-08-19
- Narrative Economics
- How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events
- De: Robert J. Shiller
- Narrado por: Susan Osman, Robert J. Shiller - introduction
A very interesting premise
Revisado: 12-12-19
an interesting way to look at economic events. feels like the sociological extension to behavioral finance.
I really wish professor Schiller read the book though.
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The Age of Living Machines
- How the Convergence of Biology and Engineering Will Build the Next Technology Revolution
- De: Susan Hockfield
- Narrado por: Andrea Gallo
- Duración: 6 h y 35 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 348
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 308
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 304
The Age of Living Machines describes some of the most exciting new developments and the scientists and engineers who helped create them. Virus-built batteries. Protein-based water filters. Cancer-detecting nanoparticles. Mind-reading bionic limbs. Computer-engineered crops. Together they highlight the promise of the technology revolution of the 21st century to overcome some of the greatest humanitarian, medical, and environmental challenges of our time.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Interesting content, but...
- De David en 05-19-19
- The Age of Living Machines
- How the Convergence of Biology and Engineering Will Build the Next Technology Revolution
- De: Susan Hockfield
- Narrado por: Andrea Gallo
Rambling and subtly elitist
Revisado: 12-04-19
After getting through the whole thing, I have to report that about 1/3 of this book is digression or marginally useful background that feels either like the author needed to hit a certain number of pages or had no real outline for writing the book. The last chapter almost feels like your reading a different book, it's so disconnected with what was talked about in the previous chapters.
My other issue is that the author goes through great effort to highlight Stanford or MIT alumnus but curiously does not mention the academic background of nearly every other person in the book regardless of spending the better part of chapters discussing what they've achieved. By about half way through the book, the lack of background annotation for non elite schools is deafening.
I would have expected better from someone of prominence from an elite university... or maybe I shouldn't going forward.
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