Heterodox Investment Theory Stochastic Predictability and Uncertainty /

• Main Author: Pistorius, Thomas (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Subjects: Finance.; Investment banking.; Securities.; Capital investments.; Economic theory.; Macroeconomics.; Investments and Securities.; Personal Finance/Wealth Management/Pension Planning.; Investment Appraisal.; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.; Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics.

The best and the brightest investment gurus often rely on rational, statistical calculations of risk and return of investments. Pistorius traces their rhetoric and comes to a modest conclusion that stochastic predictability does not exist in investing. Thus, if we follow investment advice, we are ga...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: The History of Investment Theory.-Chapter 3: Investment Theory, Probability Theory, and Uncertainty
• Chapter 4: Beyond Statistics: A New Rhetoric for Investment Theory
• Chapter 5: The Culture of Investing
• Chapter 6: Conclusions.