December 2015
Beginner
384 pages
11h 32m
English
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Chapter 23
Ten Great Risk Books
In This Chapter
Exploring the history of risk management
Digging into key ideas
Risk managers need to have as wide a range of knowledge and experience as possible. So you need to put your nose in a lot of books, and pull your nose out to do stuff as well. Anyway, here are ten good books to improve your risk management thinking. I chose them for their variety – they all focus on different aspects of risk. The one common denominator is something that Emanuel Derman (whose wonderful books My Life as a Quant and Models. Behaving. Badly. were left off this list but could easily have been included) said defined Fischer Black (whose wonderful books Business Cycles and Equilibrium and Exploring General Equilibrium were left off this list but could easily have been included): ‘unafraid hard thinking’.
A Demon of Our Own Design by Richard Bookstaber
Rick Bookstaber has managed financial risk for some of the world’s most complex financial institutions and nimblest hedge funds, and also tried his hand at regulating market risk with the Securities and Exchange Commission. He explains the lessons from his decades of experience in clear terms.
This book fits neatly into the engineering and sociologic risk literature that focuses on how risk emerges from system design ...
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