Bøger af Frank Partnoy

A reimagining of what Marx and Engels would have written had they been alive today. 170 years after the publication of the original Manifesto, we believe that Marx and Engels would still have been concerned about inequality. But rather than focus on uniting the disparate socialist movements of the nineteenth century, the twenty-first century Marx and Engels would be urging for united Activism. Activists of the world, Unite!

At the height of the roaring ’20s, Swedish émigré Ivar Kreuger made a fortune raising money in America and loaning it to Europe in exchange for matchstick monopolies. His enterprise was a rare success story throughout the Great Depression. Yet after his suicide in 1932, it became clear that Kreuger was not all he seemed: evidence surfaced of fudged accounting figures, off-balance-sheet accounting, even forgery. He created a raft of innovative financial products— many of them precursors to instruments wreaking havoc in today’s markets. In this gripping financial biography, Frank Partnoy recasts the life story of a remarkable yet forgotten genius in ways that force us to re-think our ideas about the wisdom of crowds, the invisible hand, and the free and unfettered market.

In this behind-the-scenes look at one of the world's top Wall Street investment firms, Partnoy recounts his experience during the annual drunken skeet-shooting competition where he and his colleagues sharpen the killer instincts they're encouraged to use against competitors, clients, and each other.

Argues that decisions of all kinds, whether 'snap' or long-term, benefit from being made at the last possible moment. Exploring decisions that must be made in a millisecond to those that take months and years, this title demonstrates that the ability to wait is crucial to getting the right answer and that gut instincts are often wrong.