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Description for Antilogic
Hardcover. In this collection of witty but thought--provoking essays, Bruce McComish takes a clear look at the anti--logic of the business world and financial markets. He questions with dry humor the very basis of Western financial systems and concepts such as bankruptcy. Num Pages: 244 pages, facsimiles. BIC Classification: KFFH; KFFM; KJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 492.
There are many strange phenomena in the world of business and finance. We discover many curious things, comic and contentious that are not all explained by conventional finance or economic theory rather they follow the rules of antilogic.
Financial practitioners have been attempting to quantify, monitor and control financial
risk and yet, in spite of modern quantitative analysis and highly sophisticated modelling techniques they are no more successful in this than in the past - the world of finance and business just doesn't add up.
This highly controversial and thought provoking book, written ... Read more
There are many strange phenomena in the world of business and finance. We discover many curious things, comic and contentious that are not all explained by conventional finance or economic theory rather they follow the rules of antilogic.
Financial practitioners have been attempting to quantify, monitor and control financial
risk and yet, in spite of modern quantitative analysis and highly sophisticated modelling techniques they are no more successful in this than in the past - the world of finance and business just doesn't add up.
This highly controversial and thought provoking book, written ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780471494515
SKU
V9780471494515
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Ref
99-1
About Bruce McComish
BRUCE MCCOMISH has 20 years' experience in senior management roles with leading multi-national companies. His considerable boardroom expertise traverses products and services as wide-ranging as banking, food manufacture, cleaning products, forestry and mining in locations as far apart as the UK, Australia, New Zealand, US, Indonesia and Continental Europe. He is a former Chief Financial Officer of ... Read more
Reviews for Antilogic
".... Bruce McComish has written a book that makes it clear that nothing is as it seems in the world of business and finance. Prepare to be shocked by the discovery that boardrooms and senior management ranks are populated by donkeys, market efficiency is a myth, accountants cook the books, economists are charlatans, forecasting is useless and cash is a ... Read more