02464nam a2200325 4500 46428 46428 BJBSDDR 20230410115715.0 ta 060907s2003 nju eng 0471445495 9780471445494 spa BJBSDDR eng HG 4515 S714a 2003 Soros, George, 1930- The Alchemy of finance / George Soros; foreword by Paul A. Vockler. Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, 2003 xx, 391 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Wiley investment classics 'New preface and introduction' -- cover. 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. Eminent 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. 3355 Bolsa de valores 1660 Finanzas 4257 Mercados 10726 Especulaciones mercantiles 862 Inversiones 10724 Volcker, Paul A. (Paul Adolph), 1927-2019 lcc BK 0 0 0 0 CS BJB BJB CS 2018-10-24 0 HG 4515 S714a 2003 00000018139 2018-10-24 00:00:00 1 2018-10-24 BK