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When Genius Failed

The Rise and Fall of Long Term Capital Management

by Roger Lowenstein ...

Charts are best viewed on a tablet.Picking up where Liar’s Poker left off (literally, in the bond dealer’s desks of Salomon Brothers) the story of Long-Term Capital Management is of a group of elite investors who believed they could beat the market and, like alchemists, create limitless wealth for themselves and their partners.Founded by John Meriweather, a notoriously confident bond dealer, along ... Read more

$20.99 NZD

Charts are best viewed on a tablet.Picking up where Liar’s Poker left off (literally, in the bond dealer’s desks of Salomon Brothers) the story of Long-Term Capital Management is of a group of elite investors who believed they could beat the market and, like alchemists, create limitless wealth for themselves and their partners.Founded by John Meriweather, a notoriously confident bond dealer, along
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Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire

Shortlisted for the FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2020

by Rebecca Henderson ...

***SHORTLISTED FOR FT & MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020***FT Best books of 2020: Business'In a world on fire, status quo is not a great option. Henderson rightfully argues for the refoundation of capitalism and offers thought-provoking ideas on what needs to be done to address some of the world's greatest challenges.****' Hubert Joly, former chairman and CEO, BestBuy________________<... ... Read more

$18.99 NZD

***SHORTLISTED FOR FT & MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020***FT Best books of 2020: Business'In a world on fire, status quo is not a great option. Henderson rightfully argues for the refoundation of capitalism and offers thought-provoking ideas on what needs to be done to address some of the world's greatest challenges.****' Hubert Joly, former chairman and CEO, BestBuy________________<...
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Dark Pools

The rise of A.I. trading machines and the looming threat to Wall Street

by Scott Patterson ...

Dark Pools is the pacy, revealing, and profoundly chilling tale of how global markets have been hijacked by trading robots – many so self-directed that humans can’t predict what they’ll do next.It’s the story of the blisteringly intelligent computer programmers behind the rise of these ‘bots’. And it’s a timely warning that as artificial intelligence gradually takes over, we could be on the verge ... Read more

$20.99 NZD

Dark Pools is the pacy, revealing, and profoundly chilling tale of how global markets have been hijacked by trading robots – many so self-directed that humans can’t predict what they’ll do next.It’s the story of the blisteringly intelligent computer programmers behind the rise of these ‘bots’. And it’s a timely warning that as artificial intelligence gradually takes over, we could be on the verge
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The Asset Class

How Private Equity Turned Capitalism Against Itself

by Hettie O'Brien ...

'Bang on the money' Guardian'Reads like a financial thriller' New Statesman'Astonishing' Irish Times'Read this if you want to know who precisely is to blame for, well, everything' Oliver BulloughA thrilling, eye-opening investigation into private equity, a secretive wing of the finance industry that is so relentlessly destructive, it could have been created to underm... ... Read more

$19.99 NZD

'Bang on the money' Guardian'Reads like a financial thriller' New Statesman'Astonishing' Irish Times'Read this if you want to know who precisely is to blame for, well, everything' Oliver BulloughA thrilling, eye-opening investigation into private equity, a secretive wing of the finance industry that is so relentlessly destructive, it could have been created to underm...
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Trillions

How a Band of Wall Street Renegades Invented the Index Fund and Changed Finance Forever

by Robin Wigglesworth ...

Best books of 2021, Financial Times'Grab some popcorn and take a front row seat, because Robin Wigglesworth has an astonishing story to tell you' Tim Harford, author of How to Make the World Add Up'A fascinating account of an investment revolution' Ian Fraser, Literary Review'A magisterial, delightfully written history offering up portraits of the academic scribblers and entrepreneurial pra... ... Read more

$18.99 NZD

Best books of 2021, Financial Times'Grab some popcorn and take a front row seat, because Robin Wigglesworth has an astonishing story to tell you' Tim Harford, author of How to Make the World Add Up'A fascinating account of an investment revolution' Ian Fraser, Literary Review'A magisterial, delightfully written history offering up portraits of the academic scribblers and entrepreneurial pra...
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Reimagining Capitalism

Shortlisted for the FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2020

by Rebecca Henderson ...

**LONGLISTED FOR FT & MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020WHAT IF BUSINESS COULD HELP SOLVE THE GREATEST PROBLEMS OF OUR TIME?**Free market capitalism is one of humanity's greatest inventions and the greatest source of prosperity the world has ever seen. At the same time, its single-minded pursuit of profit has led to rampant inequality and the looming threat of climate catastrophe - and now ... Read more

$21.99 NZD

**LONGLISTED FOR FT & MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020WHAT IF BUSINESS COULD HELP SOLVE THE GREATEST PROBLEMS OF OUR TIME?**Free market capitalism is one of humanity's greatest inventions and the greatest source of prosperity the world has ever seen. At the same time, its single-minded pursuit of profit has led to rampant inequality and the looming threat of climate catastrophe - and now
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Lombard Street

A Description of the Money Market

by Walter Bagehot ...

Bagehot was one of the first writers to describe and explain the world of international and corporate finance, banking, and money in understandable language. The book was in part a reaction to the 1866 collapse of Overend, Gurney and Company, located at 65 Lombard Street, from which the title draws its name. Bagehot’s description, and knowledge, is timeless and a must for anyone who wants to ... Read more

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Bagehot was one of the first writers to describe and explain the world of international and corporate finance, banking, and money in understandable language. The book was in part a reaction to the 1866 collapse of Overend, Gurney and Company, located at 65 Lombard Street, from which the title draws its name. Bagehot’s description, and knowledge, is timeless and a must for anyone who wants to
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The New Stock Market

Law, Economics, and Policy

by Merritt B. Fox, Lawrence Glosten, Gabriel Rauterberg ...

The U.S. stock market has been transformed over the last twenty-five years. Once a market in which human beings traded at human speeds, it is now an electronic market pervaded by algorithmic trading, conducted at speeds nearing that of light. High-frequency traders participate in a large portion of all transactions, and a significant minority of all trade occurs on alternative trading systems ... Read more

$139.71 NZD

The U.S. stock market has been transformed over the last twenty-five years. Once a market in which human beings traded at human speeds, it is now an electronic market pervaded by algorithmic trading, conducted at speeds nearing that of light. High-frequency traders participate in a large portion of all transactions, and a significant minority of all trade occurs on alternative trading systems
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The Bank of England and the Government Debt

Operations in the Gilt-Edged Market, 1928–1972

by William A. Allen ...

Series series Studies in Macroeconomic History
The Bank of England and the Government Debt recounts the surprising history of the Bank of England's activities in the government securities market in the mid-twentieth century. The Bank's governor, Montagu Norman, had a decisive influence on government debt management policy until he retired in 1944, and established an auxiliary market in government securities outside the Stock Exchange during ... Read more

$81.49 NZD

The Bank of England and the Government Debt recounts the surprising history of the Bank of England's activities in the government securities market in the mid-twentieth century. The Bank's governor, Montagu Norman, had a decisive influence on government debt management policy until he retired in 1944, and established an auxiliary market in government securities outside the Stock Exchange during
... Read more
Die Auspraegung des Glaeubigerschutzes in der geschichtlichen Entwicklung des Aktienrechts

by Maike Sauter ...

Series Book 106 - Frankfurter wirtschaftsrechtliche Studien
Die Autorin untersucht die Entwicklung gläubigerschützender Normen in der Geschichte des Aktienrechts. Es werden Elemente der Chaostheorie, Evolutionswissenschaft und der Pfadabhängigkeit zu einem dogmatischen Grundgerüst der Entwicklung von Rechtsnormen kombiniert und rechtliche Normen und Regelungen des Aktionärsschutzes zu regulatorischen Wirkungseinheiten zusammengefasst. Die Autorin erklärt ... Read more

$175.03 NZD

Die Autorin untersucht die Entwicklung gläubigerschützender Normen in der Geschichte des Aktienrechts. Es werden Elemente der Chaostheorie, Evolutionswissenschaft und der Pfadabhängigkeit zu einem dogmatischen Grundgerüst der Entwicklung von Rechtsnormen kombiniert und rechtliche Normen und Regelungen des Aktionärsschutzes zu regulatorischen Wirkungseinheiten zusammengefasst. Die Autorin erklärt
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Anlegerleitbild und Anlegerschutz im Kapitalmarktrecht

by Ivo Frohmüller ...

Series Book 109 - Frankfurter wirtschaftsrechtliche Studien
Die Arbeit untersucht, ob die Fragmentierung des Kapitalmarktrechts, die Folgen der Finanzmarktkrise und die Behavioral Finance-Forschung eine Modernisierung des Anlegerleitbildes für einen wirksamen Schutz des Privatanlegers erforderlich machen. Hierzu überprüft der Autor, ob de lege lata ein Anlegerleitbild besteht, das Gesetzgebung und Rechtsprechung allgemein anerkennen. Er postuliert de lege ... Read more

$154.75 NZD

Die Arbeit untersucht, ob die Fragmentierung des Kapitalmarktrechts, die Folgen der Finanzmarktkrise und die Behavioral Finance-Forschung eine Modernisierung des Anlegerleitbildes für einen wirksamen Schutz des Privatanlegers erforderlich machen. Hierzu überprüft der Autor, ob de lege lata ein Anlegerleitbild besteht, das Gesetzgebung und Rechtsprechung allgemein anerkennen. Er postuliert de lege
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Reflections on Life in Ghettos, Camps and Prisons

Stuckness and Confinement

Edited by Simon Turner, Steffen Jensen ...

Reflections on Life in Ghettos, Camps and Prisons explores the relationship between ghettos, camps, places of detention and prisons with a focus on those people who are confined, encamped, imprisoned, detained, stuck, or forcibly removed through the lens of ‘stuckness’.From a point of departure in anthropology, with important contributions from criminology, geography and philosophy, the chapters ... Read more

$123.46 NZD

Reflections on Life in Ghettos, Camps and Prisons explores the relationship between ghettos, camps, places of detention and prisons with a focus on those people who are confined, encamped, imprisoned, detained, stuck, or forcibly removed through the lens of ‘stuckness’.From a point of departure in anthropology, with important contributions from criminology, geography and philosophy, the chapters
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Raising Capital on Arab Equity Markets

Legal and Juridical Aspects of Arab Securities Regulation

by Lu'ayy Minwer Al-Rimawi ...

This first book of its kind discusses in particular the role of investor protection as regards disclosure when issuers are offering securities to the public, with full descriptions of the securities markets and stock exchanges in seventeen Arab jurisdictions. In two interrelated parts it examines both the regional macroeconomic matrix and a detailed case study (that of Jordan) in order to analyse ... Read more

$505.18 NZD

This first book of its kind discusses in particular the role of investor protection as regards disclosure when issuers are offering securities to the public, with full descriptions of the securities markets and stock exchanges in seventeen Arab jurisdictions. In two interrelated parts it examines both the regional macroeconomic matrix and a detailed case study (that of Jordan) in order to analyse
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Tabelionato de Protesto

by Christiano Cassettari, Sérgio Luiz José Bueno ...

Series series Coleção Cartórios
Elaborada por especialistas renomados, a Coleção Cartórios examina de maneira didática e profunda o direito notarial e registral em suas espécies, que dão origem aos cartórios extrajudiciais brasileiros. A coleção contempla a teoria geral do direito notarial e registral, o registro de imóveis, o registro civil de pessoa natural e jurídica, o registro de títulos e documentos e o tabelionado de ... Read more

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Elaborada por especialistas renomados, a Coleção Cartórios examina de maneira didática e profunda o direito notarial e registral em suas espécies, que dão origem aos cartórios extrajudiciais brasileiros. A coleção contempla a teoria geral do direito notarial e registral, o registro de imóveis, o registro civil de pessoa natural e jurídica, o registro de títulos e documentos e o tabelionado de
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Delisting of Stock Corporations in Europe and Beyond

Rationales, Forms, and Perspectives

Edited by Professor Vassilios Tountopoulos, Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Veil ...

This book examines delisting - and the difficult questions it raises around investor protection - from the perspectives of the company, shareholders, trading venues, and supervisory authorities.Delisting is analysed with a view to finding common ground in the EU, and exploring whether delisting should be part of the EU project of a Capital Markets Union. In order to answer the question of ... Read more

$237.60 NZD

This book examines delisting - and the difficult questions it raises around investor protection - from the perspectives of the company, shareholders, trading venues, and supervisory authorities.Delisting is analysed with a view to finding common ground in the EU, and exploring whether delisting should be part of the EU project of a Capital Markets Union. In order to answer the question of
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International Investment Management

Theory, ethics and practice

by Kara Tan Bhala, Warren Yeh, Raj Bhala ...

International Investment Management: Theory, Practice, and Ethics synthesizes investment principles, Asian financial practice, and ethics reflecting the realities of modern international finance. These topics are studied within the Asian context, first through the medium of case studies and then via the particular conditions common in those markets including issues of religion and philosophy.This ... Read more

$264.59 NZD

International Investment Management: Theory, Practice, and Ethics synthesizes investment principles, Asian financial practice, and ethics reflecting the realities of modern international finance. These topics are studied within the Asian context, first through the medium of case studies and then via the particular conditions common in those markets including issues of religion and philosophy.This
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Stanford Law Review: Volume 64, Issue 6 - June 2012

by Stanford Law Review ...

This June 2012 issue of the Stanford Law Review (the last for the academic year) contains studies of law, economics, and social policy by recognized scholars on diverse topics of interest to the academic and professional community. Contents for the issue include:"Beyond DOMA: Choice of State Law in Federal Statutes": William Baude"Does Shareholder Proxy Access Damage Share Value in Small Publicly ... Read more

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This June 2012 issue of the Stanford Law Review (the last for the academic year) contains studies of law, economics, and social policy by recognized scholars on diverse topics of interest to the academic and professional community. Contents for the issue include:"Beyond DOMA: Choice of State Law in Federal Statutes": William Baude"Does Shareholder Proxy Access Damage Share Value in Small Publicly
... Read more
Registro de Imóveis

De acordo com as novidades inseridas pela Lei 13.986/2020 (Lei do Agro)

by Christiano Cassettari, Monete Hipólito Serra, Márcio Guerra Serra ...

Series series Cartórios
Elaborada por especialistas renomados, a Coleção Cartórios examina de maneira didática e profunda o direito notarial e registral em suas espécies, que dão origem aos cartórios extrajudiciais brasileiros. A coleção contempla a teoria geral do direito notarial e registral, o registro de imóveis, o registro civil de pessoa natural e jurídica, o registro de títulos e documentos e o tabelionado de ... Read more

$43.99 NZD or Free with Kobo Plus

Elaborada por especialistas renomados, a Coleção Cartórios examina de maneira didática e profunda o direito notarial e registral em suas espécies, que dão origem aos cartórios extrajudiciais brasileiros. A coleção contempla a teoria geral do direito notarial e registral, o registro de imóveis, o registro civil de pessoa natural e jurídica, o registro de títulos e documentos e o tabelionado de
... Read more
Tabelionato de Notas

by Christiano Cassettari, Paulo Roberto Gaiger Ferreira, Felipe Leonardo Rodrigues ...

Series series Cartórios
Elaborada por especialistas renomados, a Coleção Cartórios examina de maneira didática e profunda o direito notarial e registral em suas espécies, que dão origem aos cartórios extrajudiciais brasileiros. A coleção contempla a teoria geral do direito notarial e registral, o registro de imóveis, o registro civil de pessoa natural e jurídica, o registro de títulos e documentos e o tabelionado de ... Read more

$57.99 NZD or Free with Kobo Plus

Elaborada por especialistas renomados, a Coleção Cartórios examina de maneira didática e profunda o direito notarial e registral em suas espécies, que dão origem aos cartórios extrajudiciais brasileiros. A coleção contempla a teoria geral do direito notarial e registral, o registro de imóveis, o registro civil de pessoa natural e jurídica, o registro de títulos e documentos e o tabelionado de
... Read more
Temario-guía en formación en servicio de vigilancia privada del patrimonio histórico y artístico

by Prieto Borja ...

Los museos deben evaluar sus condiciones de seguridad y poner en marcha un plan de protección. En particular, se aconseja:- mantener los servicios de seguridad las 24 horas del día, 7 días a la semana (número de personal capacitado disponible que pueda desplazarse fácilmente, con una lista de reemplazos),- mantener en pleno funcionamiento todos los sistemas de detección de intrusos, en particular ... Read more

$12.99 NZD or Free with Kobo Plus

Los museos deben evaluar sus condiciones de seguridad y poner en marcha un plan de protección. En particular, se aconseja:- mantener los servicios de seguridad las 24 horas del día, 7 días a la semana (número de personal capacitado disponible que pueda desplazarse fácilmente, con una lista de reemplazos),- mantener en pleno funcionamiento todos los sistemas de detección de intrusos, en particular
... Read more
Algo Bots and the Law

Technology, Automation, and the Regulation of Futures and Other Derivatives

by Gregory Scopino ...

The trillion-dollar markets for futures, swaps, commodity options, and related derivatives are extremely important to the global economy because, among other things, they influence the prices that people pay for everything from heating oil and bread to the interest rates connected to mortgages and student loans. Due to technological advances in automation and artificial intelligence, these markets ... Read more

$92.99 NZD

The trillion-dollar markets for futures, swaps, commodity options, and related derivatives are extremely important to the global economy because, among other things, they influence the prices that people pay for everything from heating oil and bread to the interest rates connected to mortgages and student loans. Due to technological advances in automation and artificial intelligence, these markets
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Regulating Services in the European Union

by Vassilis Hatzopoulos ...

Across the EU, services are the cornerstone of the modern economy, accounting for over 70% of national GDPs and over 90% of new jobs created. Fostering trade in services has, accordingly, become central to the EU's vision for developing the internal market. Yet regulating services and their international trade is notoriously complex, and controversial. For years the EU's efforts were limited to ... Read more

$235.19 NZD

Across the EU, services are the cornerstone of the modern economy, accounting for over 70% of national GDPs and over 90% of new jobs created. Fostering trade in services has, accordingly, become central to the EU's vision for developing the internal market. Yet regulating services and their international trade is notoriously complex, and controversial. For years the EU's efforts were limited to
... Read more
European Securities Law

Edited by Raj Panasar, Philip Boeckman ...

Fully updated by a team of expert practitioners, this third edition of European Securities Law continues to provide a comprehensive source of knowledge, and practical know-how, about the regulation and operation of the securities markets in Europe. The opening of the work provides the reader with a critical overview of the European legislative process and regulatory framework in the context of ... Read more

$815.37 NZD

Fully updated by a team of expert practitioners, this third edition of European Securities Law continues to provide a comprehensive source of knowledge, and practical know-how, about the regulation and operation of the securities markets in Europe. The opening of the work provides the reader with a critical overview of the European legislative process and regulatory framework in the context of
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The Power of Standards

Hybrid Authority and the Globalisation of Services

by Jean-Christophe Graz ...

Standards often remain unseen, yet they play a fundamental part in the organisation of contemporary capitalism and society at large. What form of power do they epitomise? Why have they become so prominent? Are they set to be as important for the globalisation of services as for manufactured goods? Graz draws on international political economy and cognate fields to present strong theoretical ... Read more

$260.69 NZD

Standards often remain unseen, yet they play a fundamental part in the organisation of contemporary capitalism and society at large. What form of power do they epitomise? Why have they become so prominent? Are they set to be as important for the globalisation of services as for manufactured goods? Graz draws on international political economy and cognate fields to present strong theoretical
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