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The Misbehavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence
Contributor(s): Mandelbrot, Benoit (Author), Hudson, Richard L. (Author)

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 ISBN: 0465043577     ISBN-13: 9780465043576
Publisher: Basic Books
OUR PRICE: $18.99  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: March 2006
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Annotation: From the inventor/founder of fractal geometry comes an award-winning book that turns modern financial theory on its head.
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BISAC Categories:
- Mathematics
- Business & Economics | Corporate Finance - General
- Business & Economics | Statistics
Dewey: 332.01
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.8" W x 9.2" L (0.85 lbs) 368 pages
Features: Annotated, Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product, Table of Contents
 
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Benoit B. Mandelbrot, one of the century's most influential mathematicians, is world-famous for making mathematical sense of a fact everybody knows but that geometers from Euclid on down had never assimilated: Clouds are not round, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not smooth. To these classic lines we can now add another example: Markets are not the safe bet your broker may claim. In his first book for a general audience, Mandelbrot, with co-author Richard L. Hudson, shows how the dominant way of thinking about the behavior of markets-a set of mathematical assumptions a century old and still learned by every MBA and financier in the world-simply does not work. As he did for the physical world in his classic The Fractal Geometry of Nature, Mandelbrot here uses fractal geometry to propose a new, more accurate way of describing market behavior. The complex gyrations of IBM's stock price and the dollar-euro exchange rate can now be reduced to straightforward formulae that yield a far better model of how risky they are. With his fractal tools, Mandelbrot has gotten to the bottom of how financial markets really work, and in doing so, he describes the volatile, dangerous (and strangely beautiful) properties that financial experts have never before accounted for. The result is no less than the foundation for a new science of finance.
 
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