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Richard Zeckhauser in his famous essay, “Investing in the Unknown and Unknowable.”
Gautam Baid • The Joys of Compounding: The Passionate Pursuit of Lifelong Learning, Revised and Updated (Heilbrunn Center for Graham & Dodd Investing Series)
Later I found out that Markowitz himself knew the same thing: Ironically, when he invested the money from his Nobel Prize, he used a portfolio with equal weights to pick a few of his favorite stocks rather than the formula he received the prize for discovering.
J. Doyne Farmer • Making Sense of Chaos: A Better Economics for a Better World
shares of Apple Computer and Starbucks each rose 10 percent amid a market rally, but Apple historically did much better than Starbucks during bullish periods, Kepler might buy Apple and short Starbucks. Using time-series analysis and other statistical techniques, Frey and a colleague searched for trading errors, behavior not fully explained by
... See moreGregory Zuckerman • The Man Who Solved the Market
They were the economist Amos Tversky and the psychologist Daniel Kahneman. Together, the two launched the field of behavioral economics—and Kahneman won a Nobel Prize—by showing that man is a very irrational beast. Feeling, they discovered, is a form of thinking.
Tahl Raz • Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
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