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Minding the markets [electronic resource] : an emotional finance view of financial instability / David Tuckett.

By: Tuckett, DavidContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Publisher: Houndmills [U.K.] ; New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011Description: xviii, 232 p001: 44632Subject(s): Investments -- Psychological aspects | Investments -- Decision making | Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009Genre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 332.601/9 LOC classification: HG4515.15 | .T83 2011Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: -- The Special Characteristics of Financial Assets -- Methods -- Four Fund Managers -- Divided States -- Finding Phantastic Objects -- Experiencing News -- Divided Masters -- Experiencing Success and Failure -- Emotional Finance -- New Economic Thinking -- Making Markets Safer.
Summary: "In this groundbreaking book, Tuckett argues that most economists' explanations of the financial crisis miss its essence; they ignore critical components of human psychology. He offers a deeper understanding of financial market behavior and investment processes by recognising the role played by unconscious needs and fears in all investment activity"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Machine generated contents note: -- The Special Characteristics of Financial Assets -- Methods -- Four Fund Managers -- Divided States -- Finding Phantastic Objects -- Experiencing News -- Divided Masters -- Experiencing Success and Failure -- Emotional Finance -- New Economic Thinking -- Making Markets Safer.

"In this groundbreaking book, Tuckett argues that most economists' explanations of the financial crisis miss its essence; they ignore critical components of human psychology. He offers a deeper understanding of financial market behavior and investment processes by recognising the role played by unconscious needs and fears in all investment activity"-- Provided by publisher.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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