Reading for Battle
Battle Readings is a regularly updated compilation of articles, essays, and opinion pieces relevant to the themes of the Battle of Ideas.
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Suggests that major financial crises can be the result of a convergence of certain, unique forces—the forces of the market′s "perfect storm"—that can cause investors to react with alarm.
Robert Bruner & Sean Carr, John Wiley & Sons, 14 September 2007
An accessible introduction to the classical side of quantitative finance specifically for university students. Iincludes carefully selected chapters to give the student a thorough understanding of futures, options and numerical methods.
Paul Wilmott, John Wiley & Sons, 29 June 2007
Considers the impact of China’s development on the world economic system, and on its environment; the likely future stability of China; the very existence of a unified China and the fault lines along which this entity might break apart in the years ahead, and an assessment of the future of the one party system, and what might replace it.
Kerry Brown, Anthem Press, 6 June 2007
The rise of China and India will be the outstanding development of the 21st century, raising fundamental questions about both the structure of the world economy and the balance of global geopolitical power.
David Smith, Profile Books Ltd, 26 April 2007
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