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How to Make a Bad Decision
Some of our most important decisions are shaped by something as random as the order in which we make them. The gambler’s fallacy, as it’s known, affects loan officers, federal judges — and probably you too. How to avoid it?
Yale professor Gary Gorton on the origins of money
Yale School of Management professor, Gary Gorton discusses how money was created.
Money Changes Everything: a history of finance in our world
Finance is at the heart of civilization and has been used for good and ill since time began.
Richard Aedy speaks with William Goetzmann about his book Money Changes Everything: how finance made civilization possible.
A history of the art market in 35 record-breaking sales
When Pablo Picasso’s “Les Femmes d’Alger (Version O)” sold at Christie’s in New York for $179 million dollars in May 2015, it was only the 36th time in the past 315 years that a world auction record had been set, and the sale raised questions well
Is Going Into Finance Good for Society?
Whatever banking’s post-recession connotations may be, the historian William Goetzmann argues that monetary innovations have always played a critical role in developing civilization.
'Money Changes Everything’, by William Goetzmann
A global history of money looks beyond bubbles, crashes and bailouts to argue that finance has been indispensable to progress for millennia
Hedge Fund Case Study: Understanding the Role of Hedge Funds in Large-Scale Pension Plans
News, earthquakes worry investors
Retail investors are more likely to think there will be a catastrophic stock market crash if they have read media reports about recent market falls, new research in the US shows.
Educating Future Academics at Yale's Summer School in Behavioral Finance
The fascinating 600-year history of a French mill, the world’s oldest shareholding company
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