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  • Adaptive Markets

  • Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought
  • By: Andrew W. Lo
  • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
  • Length: 20 hrs and 21 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (10 ratings)

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By: Andrew W. Lo
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Publisher's Summary

Half of all Americans have money in the stock market, yet economists can't agree on whether investors and markets are rational and efficient, as modern financial theory assumes, or irrational and inefficient, as behavioral economists believe - and as financial bubbles, crashes, and crises suggest. 

This is one of the biggest debates in economics, and the value or futility of investment management and financial regulation hang on the outcome. In this groundbreaking book, Andrew W. Lo cuts through this debate with a new framework, the Adaptive Markets Hypothesis, in which rationality and irrationality coexist. 

Drawing on psychology, evolutionary biology, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and other fields, Adaptive Markets shows that the theory of market efficiency isn't wrong but merely incomplete. When markets are unstable, investors react instinctively, creating inefficiencies for others to exploit. Lo's new paradigm explains how financial evolution shapes behavior and markets at the speed of thought - a fact revealed by swings between stability and crisis, profit and loss, and innovation and regulation.

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  • 07-02-2018

Boring

This guy labors every point and needs to learn to be more succinct. He sounds like your typical self-pleased academic that loves hearing the sound of his own voice. This guy assumes you just just arrived on planet earth yesterday. Although, this is listed as a finance book, he adds nothing new to our understanding of economics.

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