A Demon of Our Own Design: Markets, Hedge Funds, and the Perils of Financial InnovationISBN: 978-0-470-39375-8
Paperback
304 pages
November 2008
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Preface ix
Acknowledgments xvii
About the Author xix
CHAPTER 1 ~ Introduction: The Paradox of Market Risk 1
CHAPTER 2 ~ The Demons of ’87 7
CHAPTER 3 ~ A New Sheriff in Town 33
CHAPTER 4 ~ How Salomon Rolled the Dice and Lost 51
CHAPTER 5 ~ They Bought Salomon, Then They Killed It 77
CHAPTER 6 ~ Long-Term Capital Management Rides the Leverage Cycle to Hell 97
CHAPTER 7 ~ Colossus 125
CHAPTER 8 ~ Complexity, Tight Coupling, and Normal Accidents 143
CHAPTER 9 ~ The Brave New World of Hedge Funds 165
CHAPTER 10 ~ Cockroaches and Hedge Funds 207
CHAPTER 11 ~ Hedge Fund Existential 243
Conclusion: Built to Crash? 255
Notes 261
Index 273
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