TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stabile,Donald
TI  - Forerunners of modern financial economics: a random walk in the history of economic thought 
SN  - 1845421019
AV  - HG176.5 .S724 2005
U1  - 332.015195 22
PY  - 2005///]
CY  - Cheltenham, UK, Northampton, MA
PB  - Edward Elgar
KW  - Finance
KW  - Statistical methods
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Capital market
KW  - Economists
KW  - Economics, Mathematical
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 160-166) and index; 1; Introduction: finance, risk, and statistics --; 2; The highs and lows of Bayesian economic statistics --; 3; Irving Fisher and the mathematics of risk --; 4; Thorstein Veblen and credit risk --; 5; Risk and diversification in the boom of the 1920s --; 6; Evaluating market forecasts : financial economics in the 1930s --; 7; Statistics and the theory of value investing --; 8; Finance in a period of war, debt, and taxes --; 9; The forerunners in relation to modern financial economics
N2  - "Forerunners of Modern Financial Economics will be of great interest to both economists and historians interested in the development of statistical finance and economic thought, as well as to statisticians, financial analysts, and advanced undergraduate and graduate students studying financial economics."--BOOK JACKET
ER  -