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The Alchemists / Neil Irwin (cop. 2013)

Públic ISBD Traduït sota el títol Los Alquimistas / Neil Irwin (2014) Títol : The Alchemists : three central bankers and a world on fire Tipus de document : text imprès Autors : Neil Irwin, Autor Editorial : New York : Penguin Data de publicació : cop. 2013 Nombre de pàgines : xvii, 430 p., [16] p. de làm. ll. : il. Dimensions : 25 cm ISBN/ISSN/DL : 978-1-594-20462-3 Nota general : Inclou índex i bibliografia Idioma : Anglès (eng) Matèries : Bancs centrals -- Història Crisis econòmiques -- 2008- Crisis financeres -- Història Política monetària -- Història Classificació : 411 Bancs nacionals. Bancs centrals Resum : When the first fissures became visible to the naked eye in August 2007, suddenly the most powerful men in the world were three men who were never elected to public office. They were the leaders of the world’s three most important central banks: Ben Bernanke of the U.S. Federal Reserve, Mervyn King of the Bank of England, and Jean-Claude Trichet of the European Central Bank. Over the next five years, they and their fellow central bankers deployed trillions of dollars, pounds and euros to contain the waves of panic that threatened to bring down the global financial system, moving on a scale and with a speed that had no precedent. Neil Irwin’s The Alchemists is a gripping account of the most intense exercise in economic crisis management we’ve ever seen, a poker game in which the stakes have run into the trillions of dollars. The book begins in, of all places, Stockholm, Sweden, in the seventeenth century, where central banking had its rocky birth, and then progresses through a brisk but dazzling tutorial on how the central banker came to exert such vast influence over our world, from its troubled beginnings to the Age of Greenspan, bringing the reader into the present with a marvelous handle on how these figures and institutions became what they are – the possessors of extraordinary power over our collective fate. What they chose to do with those powers is the heart of the story Irwin tells. Vista prèvia a Google Books : http://books.google.es/books?id=YermphJSixkC&lpg=PA1&hl=es&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false Permalink : https://bibliotecatriasfargas.cat/pmb/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=2 Traduït sota el títol Los Alquimistas / Neil Irwin (2014) The Alchemists : three central bankers and a world on fire [text imprès] / Neil Irwin, Autor . - New York : Penguin, cop. 2013 . - xvii, 430 p., [16] p. de làm. : il. ; 25 cm. ISBN : 978-1-594-20462-3 Inclou índex i bibliografia Idioma : Anglès (eng) Matèries : Bancs centrals -- Història Crisis econòmiques -- 2008- Crisis financeres -- Història Política monetària -- Història Classificació : 411 Bancs nacionals. Bancs centrals Resum : When the first fissures became visible to the naked eye in August 2007, suddenly the most powerful men in the world were three men who were never elected to public office. They were the leaders of the world’s three most important central banks: Ben Bernanke of the U.S. Federal Reserve, Mervyn King of the Bank of England, and Jean-Claude Trichet of the European Central Bank. Over the next five years, they and their fellow central bankers deployed trillions of dollars, pounds and euros to contain the waves of panic that threatened to bring down the global financial system, moving on a scale and with a speed that had no precedent. Neil Irwin’s The Alchemists is a gripping account of the most intense exercise in economic crisis management we’ve ever seen, a poker game in which the stakes have run into the trillions of dollars. The book begins in, of all places, Stockholm, Sweden, in the seventeenth century, where central banking had its rocky birth, and then progresses through a brisk but dazzling tutorial on how the central banker came to exert such vast influence over our world, from its troubled beginnings to the Age of Greenspan, bringing the reader into the present with a marvelous handle on how these figures and institutions became what they are – the possessors of extraordinary power over our collective fate. What they chose to do with those powers is the heart of the story Irwin tells. Vista prèvia a Google Books : http://books.google.es/books?id=YermphJSixkC&lpg=PA1&hl=es&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false Permalink : https://bibliotecatriasfargas.cat/pmb/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=2

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The Shifts and the shocks / Martin Wolf (2014)

Públic ISBD Títol : The Shifts and the shocks : what we've learned -- and have still to learn -- from the financial crisis Tipus de document : text imprès Autors : Martin Wolf, Autor Editorial : New York : Penguin Data de publicació : 2014 Nombre de pàgines : xxii, 465 p. ll. : il., gràf. Dimensions : 24 cm ISBN/ISSN/DL : 978-1-594-20544-6 Nota general : Inclou índex i bibliografia Idioma : Anglès (eng) Matèries : Crisi financera global, 2007-2009 Crisis econòmiques -- 2008- Classificació : 016 Crisis econòmiques i financeres Resum : The book identifies the origin of the crisis in the complex interaction between globalization, hugely destabilizing global imbalances and our dangerously fragile financial system. In the eurozone, these sources of instability were multiplied by the tragically defective architecture of the monetary union. It also shows how much of the orthodoxy that shaped monetary and financial policy before the crisis occurred was complacent and wrong. In doing so, it mercilessly reveals the failures of the financial, political and intellectual elites who ran the system. The book also examines what has been done to reform the financial and monetary systems since the worst of the crisis passed. “Are we now on a sustainable course?” Wolf asks. “The answer is no.” He explains with great clarity why “further crises seem certain” and why the management of the eurozone in particular “guarantees a huge political crisis at some point in the future.” Wolf provides far more ambitious and comprehensive plans for reform than any currently being implemented. Vista prèvia a Google Books : https://books.google.es/books?id=2EVzAwAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&hl=es&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false Permalink : https://bibliotecatriasfargas.cat/pmb/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=3 The Shifts and the shocks : what we've learned -- and have still to learn -- from the financial crisis [text imprès] / Martin Wolf, Autor . - New York : Penguin, 2014 . - xxii, 465 p. : il., gràf. ; 24 cm. ISBN : 978-1-594-20544-6 Inclou índex i bibliografia Idioma : Anglès (eng) Matèries : Crisi financera global, 2007-2009 Crisis econòmiques -- 2008- Classificació : 016 Crisis econòmiques i financeres Resum : The book identifies the origin of the crisis in the complex interaction between globalization, hugely destabilizing global imbalances and our dangerously fragile financial system. In the eurozone, these sources of instability were multiplied by the tragically defective architecture of the monetary union. It also shows how much of the orthodoxy that shaped monetary and financial policy before the crisis occurred was complacent and wrong. In doing so, it mercilessly reveals the failures of the financial, political and intellectual elites who ran the system. The book also examines what has been done to reform the financial and monetary systems since the worst of the crisis passed. “Are we now on a sustainable course?” Wolf asks. “The answer is no.” He explains with great clarity why “further crises seem certain” and why the management of the eurozone in particular “guarantees a huge political crisis at some point in the future.” Wolf provides far more ambitious and comprehensive plans for reform than any currently being implemented. Vista prèvia a Google Books : https://books.google.es/books?id=2EVzAwAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&hl=es&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false Permalink : https://bibliotecatriasfargas.cat/pmb/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=3

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How not to be wrong / Jordan Ellenberg (2015)

Públic ISBD Títol : How not to be wrong : the power of mathematical thinking Altre títol : P Tipus de document : text imprès Autors : Jordan Ellenberg Editorial : New York : Penguin Data de publicació : 2015 Nombre de pàgines : 468 p. ll. : il. Dimensions : 22 cm ISBN/ISSN/DL : 978-0-14-312753-6 Nota general : Inclou índex i notes Idioma : Anglès (eng) Matèries : Matemàtica financera Classificació : M71 Matemàtiques financeres Resum : The Freakonomics of math--a math-world superstar unveils the hidden beauty and logic of the world and puts its power in our hands The math we learn in school can seem like a dull set of rules, laid down by the ancients and not to be questioned. In How Not to Be Wrong, Jordan Ellenberg shows us how terribly limiting this view is: Math isn't confined to abstract incidents that never occur in real life, but rather touches everything we do--the whole world is shot through with it. Math allows us to see the hidden structures underneath the messy and chaotic surface of our world. It's a science of not being wrong, hammered out by centuries of hard work and argument. Armed with the tools of mathematics, we can see through to the true meaning of information we take for granted: How early should you get to the airport? What does "public opinion" really represent? Why do tall parents have shorter children? Who really won Florida in 2000? And how likely are you, really, to develop cancer? How Not to Be Wrong presents the surprising revelations behind all of these questions and many more, using the mathematician's method of analyzing life and exposing the hard-won insights of the academic community to the layman--minus the jargon. Ellenberg chases mathematical threads through a vast range of time and space, from the everyday to the cosmic, encountering, among other things, baseball, Reaganomics, daring lottery schemes, Voltaire, the replicability crisis in psychology, Italian Renaissance painting, artificial languages, the development of non-Euclidean geometry, the coming obesity apocalypse, Antonin Scalia's views on crime and punishment, the psychology of slime molds, what Facebook can and can't figure out about you, and the existence of God. Ellenberg pulls from history as well as from the latest theoretical developments to provide those not trained in math with the knowledge they need. Math, as Ellenberg says, is "an atomic-powered prosthesis that you attach to your common sense, vastly multiplying its reach and strength." With the tools of mathematics in hand, you can understand the world in a deeper, more meaningful way. How Not to Be Wrong will show you how. Permalink : https://bibliotecatriasfargas.cat/pmb/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=3 How not to be wrong : the power of mathematical thinking ; P [text imprès] / Jordan Ellenberg . - New York : Penguin, 2015 . - 468 p. : il. ; 22 cm. ISBN : 978-0-14-312753-6 Inclou índex i notes Idioma : Anglès (eng) Matèries : Matemàtica financera Classificació : M71 Matemàtiques financeres Resum : The Freakonomics of math--a math-world superstar unveils the hidden beauty and logic of the world and puts its power in our hands The math we learn in school can seem like a dull set of rules, laid down by the ancients and not to be questioned. In How Not to Be Wrong, Jordan Ellenberg shows us how terribly limiting this view is: Math isn't confined to abstract incidents that never occur in real life, but rather touches everything we do--the whole world is shot through with it. Math allows us to see the hidden structures underneath the messy and chaotic surface of our world. It's a science of not being wrong, hammered out by centuries of hard work and argument. Armed with the tools of mathematics, we can see through to the true meaning of information we take for granted: How early should you get to the airport? What does "public opinion" really represent? Why do tall parents have shorter children? Who really won Florida in 2000? And how likely are you, really, to develop cancer? How Not to Be Wrong presents the surprising revelations behind all of these questions and many more, using the mathematician's method of analyzing life and exposing the hard-won insights of the academic community to the layman--minus the jargon. Ellenberg chases mathematical threads through a vast range of time and space, from the everyday to the cosmic, encountering, among other things, baseball, Reaganomics, daring lottery schemes, Voltaire, the replicability crisis in psychology, Italian Renaissance painting, artificial languages, the development of non-Euclidean geometry, the coming obesity apocalypse, Antonin Scalia's views on crime and punishment, the psychology of slime molds, what Facebook can and can't figure out about you, and the existence of God. Ellenberg pulls from history as well as from the latest theoretical developments to provide those not trained in math with the knowledge they need. Math, as Ellenberg says, is "an atomic-powered prosthesis that you attach to your common sense, vastly multiplying its reach and strength." With the tools of mathematics in hand, you can understand the world in a deeper, more meaningful way. How Not to Be Wrong will show you how. 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