Author: | Aaron Brown |
Subcategory: | Investing |
Language: | English |
Publisher: | Wiley; 1 edition (July 27, 2007) |
Pages: | 368 pages |
Category: | Perfomance |
Rating: | 4.1 |
Other formats: | docx txt rtf lrf |
Financial professional and lifelong poker player Aaron Brown knows how fine the line is between risk-taking and ruin
Financial professional and lifelong poker player Aaron Brown knows how fine the line is between risk-taking and ruin. Now, in The Poker Face of Wall Street, Brown enlightens and bedazzles serious risk-takers about the odds and skills underlying their mercurial crafts and shows how the cultures of poker and Wall Street are so easily intertwined.
My background being seated in financial mathematics, I have always had a dilettantish interest in poker. This book served as a perfect fit for a leisurely reading between my current studies. He also presents a critique of the over reliance on probability theory and game theory as they relate to poker, which most quantitatively oriented people tend to focus upon
Wall Street is where poker and modern finance?and the theory behind these "games"?clash head on. In both worlds, real risk means real money is made or lost in a heart beat, and neither camp is always rational with the risk it takes
Wall Street is where poker and modern finance?and the theory behind these "games"?clash head on. In both worlds, real risk means real money is made or lost in a heart beat, and neither camp is always rational with the risk it takes.
Aaron Brown is an executive director at the investment bank Morgan Stanley and a serious lifelong poker player who has played with Wall Street tycoons and world champion poker pros. He holds degrees in applied mathematics from Harvard and finance from the University of Chicago. He has been a finance professor and a trader as well as a portfolio manager and risk manager for Prudential Insurance, JPMorgan, Rabobank, and Citigroup.
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Wall Street is where poker and modern finance?and the theory behind these games ?clash head on. In both worlds, real risk means real money is made or lost in a heart beat, and neither camp is always rational with the risk it takes
Wall Street is where poker and modern finance?and the theory behind these games ?clash head on. As a result, business and financial professionals who want to use poker insights to improve their job performance will find this entertaining book a must read. To read this book, upload an EPUB or FB2 file to Bookmate
Brown, Aaron, 1956-The poker face of Wall Street, Aaron Brown. This book shows that the distinction between what is called purely gambling and productive economic activity is one of those socially constructed ones that remain sticky in our minds.
Brown, Aaron, 1956-The poker face of Wall Street, Aaron Brown. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. While many may disagree with the point (our economics culture is vitiated by these men-tal boundaries between activities), it remains that gambling injects cur-rency into economic life in the form of the expectation of future cash transfers and that, and not just narrowly defined productive activi-ties, may make the world advance.
Wall Street is where poker and modern finance?and the theory behind these "games"?clash head on. As a result, business and financial professionals who want to use poker insights to improve their job performance will find this entertaining book a "must read. Categories: Economy\Popular. In both worlds, real risk means real money is made or lost in a heart beat, and neither camp is always rational with the risk. Wall Street is where poker and modern finance?and the theory behind these games ?clash head on.
The game of poker was developed some time during the early 19th century in the . ISBN 978-0-672-52253-6. Aaron Brown, The Poker Face of Wall Street, John Wiley & Sons (2006), ISBN 978-0-470-12731-5.
The game of poker was developed some time during the early 19th century in the United States. Since those early beginnings, poker has grown to become an extremely popular pastime throughout the world. Jonathan H. Green's book, An Exposure of the Arts and Miseries of Gambling (G. B. Zieber, Philadelphia, 1843), described the spread of the game from there to the rest of the country by Mississippi riverboats, on which gambling was a common pastime. David G. Schwartz, Roll the Bones: The History of Gambling, Gotham (2007)