The Wisdom of Finance 英文原版 金融的智慧 人文学科如何照亮和改善金融 Mihir Desai

基本信息

Format Paperback | 240 pages

Dimensions 129 x 198 x 16mm | 236g

Publication date 20 Dec 2018

Publisher Profile Books Ltd

Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom

Language English

Edition Statement Main

ISBN10 1788160053

ISBN13 9781788160056

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

内容简介

Putting the humanity back into finance by looking at the profession's core principles through the prism of art, literature and film.

Longlisted for the FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2017

Finance is shrouded in mystery for outsiders, while many insiders are uneasy with the disrepute of their profession. How can finance become more accessible and also recover its nobility?

Harvard Business School professor Mihir Desai takes up the cause of restoring humanity to finance. With deft wit, he draws upon a rich knowledge of literature, film, history, and philosophy to explain finance's inner workings. Through this creative approach, he shows that outsiders can easily access the underlying ideas and insiders can reacquaint themselves with the core values of their profession.

This combination of finance and the humanities creates unusual and illuminating pairings: Jane Austen and Anthony Trollope are guides to risk management; Jeff Koons becomes an advocate of leverage; and Mel Brooks' The Producers teaches us about fiduciary responsibility. In Desai's vision, the principles of finance also provide answers to critical questions in our lives: bankruptcy teaches us how to react to failure, the lessons of mergers apply to marriages, and the Capital Asset Pricing Model demonstrates the true value of relationships.

The Wisdom of Finance is a wholly unique book, offering an enlivening new perspective on one of the world's most complex and misunderstood professions.

在《金融时报》和《麦肯锡年度最佳商业指南》 2017年度入围名单中，财务局面

笼罩着局外人的神秘面纱，而许多内部人对他们的专业声誉感到不安。如何使金融变得更容易获得并恢复贵族身份？

哈佛商学院教授Mihir Desai致力于恢复人类为金融事业。他以机智的才智，汲取了文学，电影，历史和哲学方面的丰富知识来解释金融的内部运作。通过这种创造性的方法，他表明，局外人可以轻松访问基本思想，而局内人可以重新认识其职业的核心价值。

金融与人文学科的结合造就了非同寻常的，极富启发性的配对：简·奥斯丁和安东尼·特罗洛普是风险管理的指南。杰夫·昆斯（Jeff Koons）成为杠杆的倡导者；梅尔·布鲁克斯（Mel Brooks）的《生产者》（The Producers）向我们介绍了受信责任。在德赛的视野中，金融原理也为我们生活中的关键问题提供了答案：破产教会我们如何应对失败，合并的教训适用于婚姻，资本资产定价模型证明了关系的真正价值。

《金融智慧》是一本完全独特的书，它为世界上复杂，容易被误解的职业之一提供了崭新的视角。

作者简介

Mihir Desai was born in India and raised in Hong Kong and New Jersey. As a professor and award-winning teacher at Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School, Desai teaches finance, tax law, entrepreneurship and has recently developed an online finance course for the HBX platform. His scholarship on corporate finance, international finance and tax policy has prompted several invitations to testify before the U.S. Congress and serves as the basis of his advisory role to leading global companies and organizations.

Mihir Desai出生于印度，在香港和新泽西长大。作为哈佛商学院和哈佛法学院的教授和屡获殊荣的老师，德赛教授金融，税法，企业家精神，最近还为HBX平台开发了在线金融课程。他在公司财务，国际财务和税收政策方面的奖学金促使多次邀请其在美国国会作证，并且是他向领先的全球公司和组织提供咨询服务的基础。