On and off, I've tended to read quite a bit. So, I thought I'd put up some reviews of books as I read them. In time, I may go back and add reviews of some of the books I read in the past. Not massively exciting, but I suppose it may be of interest to someone, somewhere (perhaps).
Puzzles of Finance - Mark P. Kritzman
This book claims to be a guide to a few interesting puzzles and paradoxes of finance, but in the end the half dozen problems came across as somewhat weak. It's a smallish book, and I never really connected with it, as it attempts to explain things that could be explained quite simply mathematically through woolly examples which I suspect would convince neither mathematicians nor the numerically-averse. In summary, it teaches you to distinguish arithmetic and geometric mean, and learn about risk preferences, if you don't want to get confused. And that's about it.
And then I read the blurb on the back, and find it recommended by 3 major economists. I'm not sure what that says.
Permalink. Posted 00:20, Tue, 28 Jun 2005.
There is also a complete index of the books.
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