Ethics in Quantitative Finance A Pragmatic Financial Market Theory /

• Main Author: Johnson, Timothy (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Subjects: Finance.; Business ethics.; Economics, Mathematical.; Finance, general.; Quantitative Finance.; Business Ethics.

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;...

Table of 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 éclair
• 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 a duck: a pragmatic theory of markets
• Chapter12 Some implications of a pragmatic approach to finance.