
| Lars Tvede, a Danish national, holds a master’s degree in Engineering and a Bachelor’s degree in international commerce. He spent 11 years as derivatives trader, portfolio manager and investment banker before moving to the telecommunication and software industries in the mid 1990s, where he co-founded and seed-funded a number high-tech companies. He returned to the financial industry at the start of 2005 to become general partner and fund manager in the Swiss hedge fund company Provalue (www.provalue.ch). Lars Tvede has published several books on general economics, marketing, telecommunication and trading, including his best-selling The Psychology of Finance, which has been translated to all major languages. He now lives Zug, Switzerland. |
| List of Figures and Tables Preface Part Ⅰ: The First Economists 1 Gambling Man 2 Cash Payment 3 The Dream Team of Money 4 The Napoleon of Finance 5 Jay and Phantom Gold 6 Seven Pioneers Part Ⅱ: The First Business Cycle Theories 7 The Golden Age 8 The Archeologists 9 Fisher and Babson 10 Keynes and the Austrians 11 The Great Depression 12 Lover, Horseman, Economist 13 The Problem with Money Part Ⅲ: A Hidden World 14 The Simulators 15 Brains of Steel 16 Fat Tails and All That 17 Monkey See, Monkey Do 18 Dot Bomb Part Ⅳ: The Essence 19 The State of the Art 20 Two Questions 21 The Five Main Drivers of Cycles 22 The Ten Challenges of Central Banking Part Ⅴ: Business Cycles and Asset Prices 23 The Mother of All Cycles: Property 24 When Art was In 25 All That Glitters 26 What Things are Made of: Commodities 27 Bonds, Stocks and Funds 28 The World’s Biggest Market: Foreign Exchange 29 Business Cycles and Market Rotation Afterword: The Beat of the Heart Appendix 1: List of Important Events in Business Cycle Theory Appendix 2: List of the Largest Financial Crises in History Chapter Notes Bibliography Index |
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