Forerunners of modern financial economics : a random walk in the history of economic thought /
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Cheltenham, UK :
Edward Elgar,
c2005.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : finance, risk, and statistics
- The highs and lows of Bayesian economic statistics
- Irving Fisher and the mathematics of risk
- Thorstein Veblen and credit risk
- Risk and diversification in the boom of the 1920s
- Evaluating market forecasts : financial economics in the 1930s
- Statistics and the theory of value investing
- Finance in a period of war, debt, and taxes
- The forerunners in relation to modern financial economies.