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Fischer Black and the Revolutionary Idea of Finance

Perry Mehrling, Perry Mehrling

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In a 30-year career equally divided between academics (University of Chicago) and Wall Street, Black contributed seminal papers in almost every area of finance and many areas of economics, but few were published in major peer-reviewed journals and many were never published at all. He spent most of his time alone in a room thinking and writing, was uncomfortable in large groups, an undistinguished lecturer and famously eccentric in ways more irritating than amusing or dramatic.

All of this gives Barnard economist Mehrling (The Money Interest and the Public Interest) his work cut out for him. He has responded with a book that, beyond providing the facts of Black's life, serves as the best currently available general history of the revolution in finance that took place between 1960 and 1990: the essential ideas and disputes are explained clearly, with a minimum of mathematics and jargon, and the relationships among the leading innovators are explored concisely but in depth.

As far as Black goes, Mehrling gives a clear picture of his working life and reveals the strong family ties and close personal friendships of a man often thought to have been emotionless.

On the whole, Mehrling's book is essential reading for anyone interested in the development of modern finance or the life of an idiosyncratic creative genius. (July)
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About the Author

PERRY MEHRLING is Professor of Economics at Barnard College of Columbia University. He holds a PhD from Harvard University and is the author of The Money Interest and the Public Interest: American Monetary Thought, 1920–1970.

Dr. Mehrling's specialty is the study of financial theory and the history of economics.

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Fischer Black and the Revolutionary Idea of Finance
Perry Mehrling, Perry Mehrling
 From Publishers Weekly
In a 30-year career equally divided between academics (University of Chicago) and Wall Street, Black contributed seminal papers in almost every area of finance and many areas of economics, but few were published in major... read full editorial
 Book Description
This vignette-based business biography captures the essence of an extraordinary man and a giant in the world of finance. After years of research and cooperation from nearly all of Black's associates, family members,... read full editorial
 From the Inside Flap
In December of 1997, Robert Merton and Myron Scholes took the stage in Stockholm to accept the Nobel Prize in Economics. Absent from the podium was Fischer Black, the "Black" of the famous Black-Scholes options... read full editorial



Customer Reviews

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Fischer Black and the Revolutionary Idea of Finance
Perry Mehrling, Perry Mehrling
 Fascinating
(St. Louis, MO) July 13, 2005 - 5.0/5 stars
Amazing that it's taken 10 years to tell Fischer Black's story except that it has been well worth the wait. Rare is the person in finance who pursues ideas for the sake of exploration; rarer still is the person who doesn't... read full review
 An Interestng book about an Interesting Man
(St. Louis, MO) July 14, 2005 - 4.0/5 stars
Fischer Black was one of a kind. Those of us in his academic years saw a brilliant scholar who was strikingly origional in his approach to problems, and a fount of ideas, many of which were viewed, at the time, as "off... read full review



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