This comprehensive text combines the theory and mathematics behind financial engineering with an emphasis on computation, in keeping with the way financial engineering is practiced intoday's capital markets.
Finance: The Basics is an introductory text intended to convey the essential elements of the broad topic of finance, with a particular focus on the practical dimension of financial tools, instruments, and markets. The book, which will be written in a jargon-free style, is aimed at first year undergraduates with no previous exposure to financial concepts and will include simple, yet comprehensive, explanations of the primary elements of the topic.
Why Good Leaders Make Bad Decisions How to Design Smart Business Experiments How to Thrive in Turbulent Markets From the Editor: Navigating the Downturn The Editors
"This e-book contains a series of articles on marketing and the latest innovative methods that companies are using to reach new markets, specifically geographical new markets, such as China and Japan. This e-book includes contributions from authors from Deloitte, and Lippincott Mercer."
Like nature itself, modern economic life is driven by relentless competition and unbridled selfishness. Or is it? Drawing on converging evidence from neuroscience, social science, biology, law, and philosophy, Moral Markets makes the case that modern market exchange works only because most people, most of the time, act virtuously. Competition and greed are certainly part of economics, but Moral Markets shows how the rules of market exchange have evolved to promote moral behavior and how exchange itself may make us more virtuous. Examining the biological basis of economic morality, tracing the connections between morality and markets, and exploring the profound implications of both, Moral Markets provides a surprising and fundamentally new view of economics--one that also reconnects the field to Adam Smith's position that morality has a biological basis.
