Fischer Black and the Revolutionary Idea of Finance (Paperback)

Acknowledgments ix

Foreword xv

Preface xxi

Prologue The Price of Risk 1

ONE Thou Living Ray of Intellectual Fire 23

TWO An Idea in the Rough 49

THREE Some Kind of an Education 73

FOUR Living Up to the Model 99

FIVE Tortuous Economic Intuition 119

SIX The Money Wars 139

SEVEN Global Reach 165

EIGHT Stagflation 189

NINE Changing Fields 215

TEN What Do Traders Do? 231

ELEVEN Exploring General Equilibrium 255

Epilogue Nothing Is Constant 283

Appendix A A Financial Notes Chronology 299

Appendix B A Newsletter Chronology 301

Notes 303

References 327

Index 355