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Contents
Title Page
Contents
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Author’s Note
Introduction
The Wheel of Fortune
Risky Business
On Value
Becoming a Producer
No Romance Without Finance
Living the Dream
Failing Forward
Why Everyone Hates Finance
Afterword
Acknowledgments
Notes
Illustration Credits
Index
About the Author
Connect with HMH
Copyright © 2017 by Mihir A. Desai
 
All rights reserved
 
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available.
ISBN
978-0-544-91113-0
 
Illustration credits appear on
page 215
.
 
Excerpt from “Two Tramps in Mud Time” from the book
The Poetry of Robert Frost
edited by Edward Connery Lathem. Copyright © 1969 by Henry Holt and Company, copyright © 1936 by Robert Frost, copyright © 1964 by Lesley Frost Ballantine. Used by permission of Henry Holt and Company, LLC. All rights reserved.
 
Cover design by Brian Moore
Cover illustration:
Archimedes’ Lever
, courtesy of the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania
 
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ISBN
978-0-544-91120-8
v1.0517
To
TEENA, MIA, ILA,
and
PARVATI
Money is a kind of poetry.
—Wallace Stevens, Adagia
in Opus Posthumous
AUTHOR’S NOTE
This book is not about the latest study that will help you make money in the stock market or that will nudge you into saving more. And it’s not about the optimal allocation of your retirement assets.
This book is about humanizing finance by bridging the divide between finance and literature, history, philosophy, music, movies, and religion.
This book is about how the philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce and the poet Wallace Stevens are insightful guides to the ideas of risk and insurance, and how Lizzy Bennet of Pride and Prejudice
and Violet Effingham of Phineas Finn
are masterful risk managers. This book looks to the parable of the talents and John Milton for insight on value creation and valuation; to the financing of dowries in Renaissance Florence and the movie Working Girl
for insight on mergers; to the epic downfall of the richest man in the American colonies and to the Greek tragedies for insight on bankruptcy and financial distress; and to Jeff Koons’s career and Mr. Stevens of Remains of the Day
for insight on the power and peril of leverage.
In short, this ............

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