Screen LibraryEthics in Quantitative Finance : A Pragmatic Financial Market Theory /
This book presents an ethical theory for financial transactions that underpins the stability of modern economies. It combines elements from history, ethics, economics and mathematics to show how these combined can be used to develop a pragmatic theory of financial markets. Written in three sections;...
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Publisher Address: | Cham : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61039-9 |
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This book presents an ethical theory for financial transactions that underpins the stability of modern economies. It combines elements from history, ethics, economics and mathematics to show how these combined can be used to develop a pragmatic theory of financial markets. Written in three sections; section one examines the co-evolution of finance and mathematics in an ethical context by focusing on three periods: pre-Socratic Greece, Western Europe in the thirteenth century and North-western Europe in the seventeenth century to demonstrate how the historical development of markets and finan |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (VIII, 279 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9783319610399 |
| Index Number: | HG1 |
| CLC: | F830 |
| Contents: | Chapter1 The genesis of money and its impact -- Chapter2 Finance and ethics in medieval Europe -- Chapter3 Finance, mathematics and the foundations of modernity -- Chapter4 The philosophical basis of modernity -- Chapter5 The financial revolution of the late seventeenth century -- Chapter6 The Enlightenment and l homme clair -- Chapter7 Practical mathematics: the development of probability theory -- Chapter8 The emergence Homo economicus in the nineteenth century -- Chapter9 The ascendency of Financial Economics -- Chapter10 The Fundamental Theorem of Asset Pricing -- Chapter11 Two women and |