Modern financial markets offer the real world's best approximation to the idealized price auction market envisioned in economic theory. Nevertheless, as the increasingly exquisite and detailed financial data demonstrate, financial markets often fail to behave as they should if trading were truly...

This book offers a definitive and wide-ranging overview of developments in behavioral finance over the past ten years. In 1993, the first volume provided the standard reference to this new approach in finance--an approach that, as editor Richard Thaler put it, "entertains the possibility that...

Verl.Beschr.: Das Finanzmagazin Forbes nannte Charles MacKays Werk das ?wichtigste Buch, das je über Investments geschrieben worden ist?. Der Leser erfährt authentisch und äusserst unterhaltsam alles über den Tulpenwahn in Holland von 1634 bis 1637, John Laws grosses Mississippi-Projekt von...