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The Money Game.
Title:
The Money Game.
Author:
Smith, Adam.
ISBN:
9781497652712
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (328 pages)
Contents:
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- I. You: Identity : Anxiety : Money -- 1. Why Did the Master Say "Game"? -- 2. Mister Johnson's Reading List "… the dominant note of our time is unreality." -- 3. Can Ink Blots Tell You Whether You Are the Type Who Will Make a Lot of Money in the Market? -- 4. Is the Market Really a Crowd? -- 5. You Mean That's What Money Really Is? -- 6. What Are They in It For? -- A. Cuddling Comsat -- B. I Want to Be Loved for Myself -- C. Was I Dumb! Was I Dumb! Kick Me! -- D. IBM as Religion: Don't Touch, Don't Touch -- E. The Broker as Witch-Doctor -- F. Can I Tell Rosalind? Can I Tell Harriet? -- G. They Make Me Do Everything Wrong -- 7. Identity and Anxiety -- 8. Where the Money Is -- 9. Mr. Smith Admits His Biases -- II. It: Systems -- 10. Can Footprints Predict the Future? -- 11. What the Hell Is a Random Walk? -- 12. Computers and Computeers -- 13. But What Do the Numbers Mean? -- 14. Why Are the Little People Always Wrong? -- III. They: The Pros -- 15. The Cult of Performance -- 16. Lunch at Scarsdale Fats' -- 17. Losers and Winners: Poor Grenville, Charley, and the Kids -- 18. Timing, and a Diversion: The Cocoa Game -- IV. Visions of the Apocalypse: Can It All Comb Tumbling Down? -- 19. My Friend the Gnome of Zurich Says a Major Money Crisis Is On Its Way -- 20. If All the Half Dollars Have Disappeared, Is Something Sinister Gaining on Us? -- V. Visions of the Millennium: Do You Really Want to Be Rich? -- 21. The Purposive Investor -- About the Author -- Copyright Page.
Abstract:
Adam Smith (1930-2014) is the pseudonym of George Goodman, a writer and editor best known for his Emmy Award-winning PBS program Adam Smith's Money World. After graduating from Harvard College, he studied political economy as a Rhodes scholar at the University of Oxford. Goodman made his name as a journalist presenting financial and economic concepts to mainstream audiences and was a bestselling author of numerous books, including The Money Game, Supermoney, and Powers of Mind. He was also a screenwriter, as well as a cofounder of New York magazine and Institutional Investor.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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