The Investment Philosophers

Financial Lessons from the Great Thinkers

Ethan A. Everett (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

208 Seiten

2025
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-22111-5 (ISBN)

Artikel merken

What do Warren Buffett and Friedrich Nietzsche have in common? Why does Baruch Spinoza’s understanding of irrational emotions help explain financial markets? How did Voltaire’s success in a bond lottery arbitrage shape his writing? Can David Hume teach an investor when to buck the consensus and when to heed it?

Exploring these questions and many others, Ethan A. Everett reveals the surprising lessons we can learn about investing from major philosophers. Demystifying ideas and texts that can often seem intimidating or irrelevant, he shows how philosophical concepts can be fruitfully applied to financial markets. Everett shares how philosophers’ insights have informed his development as an investor, and he considers how great investors have embodied philosophical wisdom in their own endeavors.

Inviting and engaging, The Investment Philosophers presents evergreen insights in language that is accessible to readers who are beginning their journeys in finance and philosophy. Ranging from the birth of modern securities markets in seventeenth-century Amsterdam to recent trends like meme stocks, this book shows why a philosophical perspective can prove invaluable to challenging common assumptions in finance.

Ethan A. Everett is an investment analyst at the financial advisory firm Galvin, Gaustad & Stein, focusing on equity research. He obtained joint MBA and law degrees from Cornell University.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Driving Forces of Markets and Morality
1. Going Short Irrational Emotions
2. Philosophy in Omaha
Part II. Profiting from Skepticism and Cynicism
3. Net-Net Skepticism
4. Lottery Arbitrage
5. Luck of the Draw
Part III. Market Abstraction and Investor Identity
6. The Limits of Abstraction
7. Beware of Carnival Mirrors
8. Grasping for Investor Identity
Part IV. Money Mindsets and Market Meaning
9. The Anxiety of Having Money
10. Avoiding Despair on Wall Street
11. The Sleeping Giant
Part V. Relation in the Face of Market Adaptation
12. Saying No to Madoff
13. Our Fight for Market Mastery
Epilogue/Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	17.10.2025
Zusatzinfo	20 b&w figures
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Geld / Bank / Börse
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Finanzierung
ISBN-10	0-231-22111-8 / 0231221118
ISBN-13	978-0-231-22111-5 / 9780231221115
Zustand	Neuware