02374nam a2200301 4500003000800000005001700008007000300025008004100028020001500069020001800084040001700102041000800119050002500127100002700152245007300179260005000252300003500302440003000337500004500367505114900412520036601561650002101927650001301948650001401961650003101975650001602006700005002022BJBSDDR20230410115715.0ta060907s2003 nju eng  a0471445495 a9780471445494 bspacBJBSDDR aeng14aHG 4515 bS714a 20031 aSoros, George, d1930-14aThe Alchemy of finance /cGeorge Soros; foreword by Paul A. Vockler. aHoboken, NJ :bJohn Wiley & Sons,c2003  axx, 391 p. : bill. ; c23 cm. aWiley investment classics a'New preface and introduction' -- cover. a Machine derived contents note: Foreword to the New Edition by Paul A. Volcker. -- Foreword to the First Edition by Paul Tudor Jones II. -- New Preface. -- New Introduction. -- Part One: Theory -- 1. Reflexivity in the Stock Market. -- 2. Reflexivity in the Currency Market. -- 3. The Credit and Regulatory Cycle. -- Part Two: Historical Perspective. -- 4. The International Debt Problem. -- 5. The Collective System of Lending. -- 6. Reagan?s Imperial Circle. -- 7. Evolution of the Banking System. -- 8. The "Oligopolarization" of America. -- Part Three: The Real-Time Experiment. -- 9. The Starting Point: August 1985. -- 10. Phase 1: August 1985-December 1985. -- 11. Control Period: January 186-July 1986. -- 12. Phase 2: July 1986-November 1986. -- 13. The Conclusion: November 1986. -- Part Four: Evaluation. -- 14. The Scope for Financial Alchemy: An Evaluation of the Experiment. -- 15. The Quandary of the Social Sciences. -- Part Five: Prescription. -- 16. Free Markets Versus Regulation. -- 17. Toward an International Central Bank. -- 18. The Paradox of Systemic Reform. -- 19. The Crash of '87. -- Epilogue. -- Notes. -- Appendix. aEminent investor and philanthropist Soros reveals the investment strategies that have guided his career. According to Soros, "the belief that financial markets tend toward equilibrium and it is only government interference that prevents them from assuring the best allocation of resources...[is] both false and misleading." The book was first published in 1987. 4aBolsa de valores 4aFinanzas 4aMercados  4aEspeculaciones mercantiles 4aInversiones1 aVolcker, Paul A. q(Paul Adolph), d1927-2019