The Poker Face of Wall Street

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		The Poker Face of Wall Street
		The Poker Face of Wall Street

基本信息·出版社：John Wiley & Sons
·页码：368 页
·出版日期：2007年07月
·ISBN：0470127317
·条形码：9780470127315
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语
·外文书名：华尔街的扑克脸

内容简介 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. 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." So will poker players searching for an edge in applying the insights of risk–takers on Wall Street.
作者简介

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.

编辑推荐 From Publishers Weekly
If you're looking for tips on becoming a better poker player, you've probably come to the wrong place. Brown does cover the game's basics and shares plenty of stories from his early card-playing days, which include Harvard games with the likes of Scott Turow. But he has much bigger stakes to discuss in this upbeat and entertaining guide. Drawing on his background at Morgan Stanley (where he's an executive director) and other financial institutions, Brown proposes that "finance can only be understood as a gambling game" and vice versa—and though the material can be rough going for those without some investment training, he's very convincing once all the cards are laid out. In an extended historical example, Brown shows how the economy of colonial America was jump-started by the introduction of faro dealers into French Louisiana. He sees the current financial market as filled with similar wealth-generating potential and believes "taking risks just makes sense" in such an opportunity-rich climate. Poker, then, becomes a tool for learning how to evaluate and embrace financial risk. Brown's model is instantly graspable, but so contrary to the conventional wisdom on both economics and gambling that it may well spark debate. (Apr.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Review
Named one of BusinessWeek's top 10 paperbacks for summer reading: "The Poker Face of Wall Street is a sprawling, idiosyncratic, and sometimes poker-obsessed work filled with nuggets about American history and finance."

Review
"Playing high-level poker, trading options, marketing bonds, and being a professor of finance-Aaron Brown has done them all. He shares with us the insights each of these has given him about the others and the lessons he's learned about life. From John Law to Fischer Black, I enjoyed the characters and the anecdotes."
—Edward O. Thorp, author of Beat the Dealer: A Winning Strategy for the Game of Twenty-One and Beat the Market: A Scientific Stock Market System

"How to be a poker pro and much more . . . a delightful journey through risk concepts with a Wall Street derivatives trader. Brown uses poker concepts as a wonderful metaphor for investment and living life. His enthusiasm for grasping the brass ring of adventure while explaining the role of 'incalculable risk' draws one into the experience of the book. A great read and a good manual for understanding risk."
—Dr. William T. Ziemba, Alumni Professor of Financial Modeling and Stochastic Optimization Emeritus), Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia, Vancouver

"Make no mistake, this is a book about economic development as much as poker, and it tells how to win at both gambling games. Experienced poker players and economists will both look at the world with new eyes after hearing what Aaron Brown has to say."
—Perry Mehrling, Professor of Economics at Barnard College of Columbia University author of Fischer Black and the Revolutionary Idea of Finance

"The Poker Face of Wall Street is packed with useful information about gambling, the life on Wall Street, poker culture, and some of the most interesting people involved in gambling. The book is a great mix of entertaining and nontraditional thinking."
—Espen Gaarder Haug, Trader, JPMorgan author of The Complete Guide to Option Pricing Formulas

"The writer's experience and knowledge of the worlds of poker and finance come together in this intriguing and readable book.”
—Philip Augar, author of The Greed Merchants: How the Investment Banks Played the Free Market Game

“Aaron Brown brings together more colorful threads than a Persian carpet, more dimensions than an episode of Stargate and more interesting characters than Damon Runyan. Aaron Brown is the Damon Runyon for a technological age in which you need psychology, game theory and mathematics in place of the suit, the spats and the diamond stick pin.”
—Paul Wilmott, author and mathematician

"Overall, this book makes for excellent reading, and I would recommend it to anybody with an interest in the worlds of finance, poker or both. The author has an excellent style, and with chapter headings as diverse as 'The stormy, husky, brawling laughter of youth,' 'Frank’s grandma' and 'God gave you guts: don’t let him down,' you can feel the character and wit of the author jumping out onto the page. ... I recommend buying your copy now, and if you should happen across a small-stakes poker game on holiday, a few of the thoughts within the book should at least help you understand why you lost after the event!"-- Richard Norgate (Financial Engineering News, July/August 2006) --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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