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- Product code: 23772
- ISBN: 0470018062,
ISBN13: 9780470018064,
500 pages, hardback
Published by John Wiley & Sons on 2006
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Description of Business Cycles |
This entertaining book describes the global history of economic fluctuations and business cycle theory over more than 300 years. It explains the core of the problem and shows how cycles can be forecast and how they are managed by central banks. The book concludes with detailed studies of how sub-sectors of stocks, bonds, hedge funds, private equity funds, gold, exchange rates, real estate, commodities, art and collectibles fluctuate over different categories of business cycles.
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Contents of Business Cycles |
List of Figures and Tables
Preface
Part I: The First Economists
1. Gambling Man
2. Cash Payment
3. The Dream Team of Money
4. The Napoleon of Finance
5. Jay and Phantom Gold
6. Seven Pioneers
Part II: The First Business Cycle Theories
7. The Golden Age
8. The Archeologists
9. Fisher and Babson
10. Keynes and the Austrians
11. The Great Depression
12. Lover, Horseman, Economist
13. The Problem with Money
Part III: A Hidden World
14. The Simulators
15. Brains of Steel
16. Fat Tails and All That
17. Monkey See, Monkey Do
18. Dot Bomb
Part IV: The Essence
19. The State of the Art
20. Two Questions
21. The Five Main Drivers of Cycles
22. The Ten Challenges of Central Banking
Part V: Business Cycles and Asset Prices
23. The Mother of All Cycles: Property
24. When Art was In
25. All That Glitters
26. What Things are Made of: Commodities
27 Bonds, Stocks and Funds
28. The World’s Biggest Market: Foreign Exchange
29. Business Cycles and Market Rotation
Afterword: The Beat of the Heart
Appendix 1: List of Important Events in Business Cycle Theory
Appendix 2: List of the Largest Financial Crises in History
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
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About Lars Tvede |
Lars Tvede, a Danish national, holds a master's degree in Engineering and a Bachelor's degree in international commerce. He spent 11 years as derivatives trader, portfolio manager and investment banker before moving to the telecommunication and software industries in the mid 1990s, where he co-founded and seed-funded a number high-tech companies. He returned to the financial industry at the start of 2005 to become general partner and fund manager in the Swiss hedge fund company Provalue (www.provalue.ch). Lars Tvede has published several books on general economics, marketing, telecommunication and trading, including his best-selling The Psychology of Finance, which has been translated to all major languages. He now lives Zug, Switzerland.
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