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Speculation

Author : Stuart Banner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190623047
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Speculation written by Stuart Banner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the difference between a gambler and a speculator? Is there a readily identifiable line separating the two? If so, is it possible for us to discourage the former while encouraging the latter? These difficult questions cut across the entirety of American economic history, and theperiodic failures by regulators to differentiate between irresponsible gambling and clear-headed investing have often been the proximate causes of catastrophic economic downturns. Most recently, the blurring of speculation and gambling in U.S. real estate markets fueled the 2008 global financialcrisis, but it is one in a long line of similar economic disasters going back to the nation's founding.In Speculation, author Stuart Banner provides a sweeping and story-rich history of how the murky lines separating investment, speculation, and outright gambling have shaped America from the 1790s to the present. Regulators and courts always struggled to draw a line between investment and gambling,and it is no easier now than it was two centuries ago. Advocates for risky investments have long argued that risk-taking is what defines America. Critics counter that unregulated speculation results in bubbles that always draw in the least informed investors-gamblers, essentially. Financial chaos isthe result. The debate has been a perennial feature of American history, with the pattern repeating before and after every financial downturn since the 1790s. The Panic of 1837, the speculative boom of the roaring twenties, and the real estate bubble of the early 2000s are all emblematic of thedifficulty in differentiating sober from reckless speculation. Even after the recent financial crisis, the debate continues. Some, chastened by the crash, argue that we need to prohibit certain risky transactions, but others respond by citing the benefits of loosely governed markets and the dangersof over-regulation. These episodes have generated deep ambivalence, yet Americans' faith in investment and - by extension - the stock market has always rebounded quickly after even the most savage downturns. Indeed, the speculator on the make is a central figure in the folklore of Americancapitalism.Engaging and accessible, Speculation synthesizes a suite of themes that sit at the heart of American history - the ability of courts and regulators to protect ordinary Americans from the ravages of capitalism; the periodic fallibility of the American economy; and - not least - the moral conundruminherent in valuing those who produce goods over those who speculate, and yet enjoying the fruits of speculation. Banner's history is not only invaluable for understanding the fault lines beneath the American economy today, but American identity itself.

Speculation

Author : Peter Achinstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190615060
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Speculation written by Peter Achinstein and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-05 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newton urged scientists never to speculate, only to prove by establishing experimental facts. By contrast, Einstein urged scientists to speculate freely, since only daring speculations, not experimental facts, can advance science. Who, if either, is right? Is speculation a legitimate part of science, even in the absence of testing? If so, can speculations be evaluated without testing? How? To answer these questions it must first be determined what counts as a speculation, a task not usually investigated by those who express strong views about speculation. In Speculation, Peter Achinstein develops the basic idea that speculating involves introducing assumptions, under certain "theorizing" conditions, without knowing that there is evidence for those assumptions. This idea is made precise by utilizing a concept of "evidence" Achinstein has introduced in previous writings and also explains here. With this concept, Achinstein defends a view according to which, by contrast with Newton, speculations are crucial in science, and by contrast with Einstein, they are subject to constraints. The latter include pragmatic ones, reflecting the particular aims of the scientist in speculating, and epistemic ones that are subject to a different standard then "evidence sufficient for belief." This viewpoint is illustrated and evaluated by critically examining historical and contemporary speculations in fundamental physics as well as more general speculations within or about science, including these: nature is simple, and simplicity is a sign of truth (Newton, Einstein); a theory can only be tested "holistically" (Duhem and Quine); and there is, and must be, a "Theory of Everything" (string theorists and reductionists).

Speculation

Author : Marina Vishmidt
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262373890
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Speculation written by Marina Vishmidt and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-06-06 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging investigation of what speculation is, and what is at stake for artistic, curatorial, critical, and institutional practices in relating to their own speculative character. Engaging with the question of speculation in ways that encompass the artistic, the economic, and the philosophical, with excursions into the literary and the scientific, this collection approaches the theme as a powerful logic of contemporary life whose key instantiations are art and finance. Both are premised on the power of contingency, temporality, and experimentation in the creation (and capitalization) of possible worlds. Artistic autonomy, and the self-legislation of the space of art, have often been seen as the freedom to speculate wildly on material and social possibilities. In this context, the artist is seen as a speculative subject and a paragon of creativity—the diametrical opposite of the bean-counter obsessed with balance sheets and value added. However, once social reality becomes speculative and opaque in its own right—risky, algorithmic, and overhauled by networked markets—what becomes of the distinction between not just art and finance but art and life? This anthology surveys material and social inventiveness from the ground up, speculating with technologies, gender, constructs of the family, and systems of logistics and coordination. An ecology of speculation is traced—one that is as broken, specific, and enthralling as the world. Artists Surveyed include Bertolt Brecht, Jerzy Ludwiński, Cameron Rowland, Salvage Art Institute, Andy Warhol, Mi You, PiraMMMida, Sam Lewitt Writers Include Lisa Adkins, Ramon Amaro, Brenna Bhandar, Octavia Butler, Cédric Durand, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Sophie Lewis, Dougal Dixon, Stanisław Lem, Isabelle Stengers and Phillip Pignarre, Steven Shaviro, Can Xue, Daniel Spaulding

Speculation

Author : Thomas Temple Hoyne
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1596059761
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Speculation written by Thomas Temple Hoyne and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2006-10-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With keen insight and an unexpected good humor, this 1922 volume on the vagaries of the stock market and the psychology of those who play it is still required reading for investors today. From harnessing Hoyne's "speculative force"'-the tendency to transform into advantageous action the result of using one's brain-to overcoming greed and fear, taking advantage of news and gossip, and making the rules and principles work for you, contemporary speculators will find much to enjoy and learn here. American author THOMAS TEMPLE HOYNE (1875-1946) also wrote Intrigue on the Upper Level: A Story of Crime, Love, Adventure and Revolt in 2050 A.D. (1934), the humorous On Pilgrimage (1938) and other books.

Louis Bachelier's Theory of Speculation

Author : Louis Bachelier
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400829305
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Louis Bachelier's Theory of Speculation written by Louis Bachelier and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-12-12 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: March 29, 1900, is considered by many to be the day mathematical finance was born. On that day a French doctoral student, Louis Bachelier, successfully defended his thesis Théorie de la Spéculation at the Sorbonne. The jury, while noting that the topic was "far away from those usually considered by our candidates," appreciated its high degree of originality. This book provides a new translation, with commentary and background, of Bachelier's seminal work. Bachelier's thesis is a remarkable document on two counts. In mathematical terms Bachelier's achievement was to introduce many of the concepts of what is now known as stochastic analysis. His purpose, however, was to give a theory for the valuation of financial options. He came up with a formula that is both correct on its own terms and surprisingly close to the Nobel Prize-winning solution to the option pricing problem by Fischer Black, Myron Scholes, and Robert Merton in 1973, the first decisive advance since 1900. Aside from providing an accurate and accessible translation, this book traces the twin-track intellectual history of stochastic analysis and financial economics, starting with Bachelier in 1900 and ending in the 1980s when the theory of option pricing was substantially complete. The story is a curious one. The economic side of Bachelier's work was ignored until its rediscovery by financial economists more than fifty years later. The results were spectacular: within twenty-five years the whole theory was worked out, and a multibillion-dollar global industry of option trading had emerged.

Technologies of Speculation

Author : Sun-ha Hong
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479802107
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Technologies of Speculation written by Sun-ha Hong and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inquiry into what we can know in an age of surveillance and algorithms Knitting together contemporary technologies of datafication to reveal a broader, underlying shift in what counts as knowledge, Technologies of Speculation reframes today’s major moral and political controversies around algorithms and artificial intelligence. How many times we toss and turn in our sleep, our voluminous social media activity and location data, our average resting heart rate and body temperature: new technologies of state and self-surveillance promise to re-enlighten the black boxes of our bodies and minds. But Sun-ha Hong suggests that the burden to know and to digest this information at alarming rates is stripping away the liberal subject that ‘knows for themselves’, and risks undermining the pursuit of a rational public. What we choose to track, and what kind of data is extracted from us, shapes a society in which my own experience and sensation is increasingly overruled by data-driven systems. From the rapidly growing Quantified Self community to large-scale dragnet data collection in the name of counter-terrorism and drone warfare, Hong argues that data’s promise of objective truth results in new cultures of speculation. In his analysis of the Snowden affair, Hong demonstrates an entirely new way of thinking through what we could know, and the political and philosophical stakes of the belief that data equates to knowledge. When we simply cannot process all the data at our fingertips, he argues, we look past the inconvenient and the complicated to favor the comprehensible. In the process, racial stereotypes and other longstanding prejudices re-enter our newest technologies by the back door. Hong reveals the moral and philosophical equations embedded into the algorithmic eye that now follows us all.

Experiment, Speculation and Religion in Early Modern Philosophy

Author : Alberto Vanzo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429663625
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Experiment, Speculation and Religion in Early Modern Philosophy written by Alberto Vanzo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-11 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experimental philosophy was an exciting and extraordinarily successful development in the study of nature in the seventeenth century. Yet experimental philosophy was not without its critics and was far from the only natural philosophical method on the scene. In particular, experimental philosophy was contrasted with and set against speculative philosophy and, in some quarters, was accused of tending to irreligion. This volume brings together ten scholars of early modern philosophy, history and science in order to shed new light on the complex relations between experiment, speculation and religion in early modern Europe. The first six chapters of the book focus on the respective roles of experimental and speculative philosophy in individual seventeenth-century philosophers. They include Francis Bacon, Robert Boyle, Margaret Cavendish, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke and Isaac Newton. The next two chapters deal with the relation between experimental philosophy and religion with a special focus on hypotheses and natural religion. The penultimate chapter takes a broader European perspective and examines the paucity of concerns with religion among Italian natural philosophers of the period. Finally, the concluding chapter draws all these individuals and themes together to provide a critical appraisal of recent scholarship on experimental philosophy. This book is the first collection of essays on the subject of early modern experimental philosophy. It will appeal to scholars and students of early modern philosophy, science and religion.

The ABC of Stock Speculation

Author : S. A. Nelson
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1596054719
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book The ABC of Stock Speculation written by S. A. Nelson and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1901 there were days when dealings on the Stock Exchange exceeded 3,000,000 shares and the machinery of speculation threatened to break down under the intensity of the strain to which it was subjected. Whether the records of that year will ever be broken no man can foretell...-from "Chapter II: Stock Speculation"In 1884, Charles Dow, the Wall Street Journal's famous first editor, published the first stock market average... and in the years after, he formulated, through his editorials, a wide-ranging economic philosophy that has come to be known as "Dow's Theory." In fact, S.A. Nelson coined the term when he collected Dow's editorials together in this 1902 volume. Topics discussed include: .methods of reading the market.cutting losses short.the danger in overtrading.the recurrence of crises.the tipster.and much more.Dow's observations and Nelson's commentary sound strikingly modern even a century later, and remain vital components of an intelligent understanding of fundamental concepts of the stock market.S. A. NELSON was a reporter for The Wall Street Journal during the early 20th-century.

The Art of Speculation

Author : Philip L. Carret
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9780471181880
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (818 download)

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Download or read book The Art of Speculation written by Philip L. Carret and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1997-04-03 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Art of Speculation is laden with insights and studies that are as fresh today as newly cut grass . . . a joy to read. The topics covered were timeless in 1931 . . . and written in 24-carat prose." -from the Foreword by Victor Niederhoffer A classic in every sense of the word, The Art of Speculation has been heralded by investors, both past and present, as a true standout in the field. Written by Philip Carret -a Wall Street legend long considered a leading thinker in basic value investing -this timeless work is as vital a part of finance literature today as it was when it first appeared almost seventy years ago. Acclaim for The Art of Speculation "Philip Carret has been practicing the art of investing longer than anyone. In the current frothy stock market environment it is helpful to read his insights into the Great Crash of 1929 to see if there are useful parallels. Beginning investors will find The Art of Speculation instructive and students of the market will learn much about what investing was like seven decades ago before computers, derivatives, junk bonds, discount brokers, and hedge funds. His Twelve Commandments for Speculators is good advice for us all." -Byron R. Wien, Managing Director/U.S. Investment Strategist Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc. "A genuine rarity: the intricacies of investing illuminated by clear writing and timeless insight. The chapters on how to read a balance sheet and income statement are classics. No investor should even consider dabbling in the frantic IPO market of today without having read them first." -Christopher M. Byron Esquire

Science and Speculation

Author : Jonathan Barnes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521022187
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (221 download)

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Download or read book Science and Speculation written by Jonathan Barnes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-11-10 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies the impact that the advances in philosophy and science had on each other in Greece between 300 B.C. and A.D. 200.

Patterns of Speculation

Author : Bertrand M. Roehner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139432346
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Patterns of Speculation written by Bertrand M. Roehner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-05-02 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main objective of this 2002 book is to show that behind the bewildering diversity of historical speculative episodes it is possible to find hidden regularities, thus preparing the way for a unified theory of market speculation. Speculative bubbles require the study of various episodes in order for a comparative perspective to be obtained and the analysis developed in this book follows a few simple but unconventional ideas. Investors are assumed to exhibit the same basic behavior during speculative episodes whether they trade stocks, real estate, or postage stamps. The author demonstrates how some of the basic concepts of dynamical system theory, such as the notions of impulse response, reaction times and frequency analysis, play an instrumental role in describing and predicting speculative behavior. This book will serve as a useful introduction for students of econophysics, and readers with a general interest in economics as seen from the perspective of physics.

Speculation in Commodity Markets, Hearings Before the Subcommittee of ..., 80-2 ...

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Appropraitions Committee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
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Download or read book Speculation in Commodity Markets, Hearings Before the Subcommittee of ..., 80-2 ... written by United States. Congress. Senate. Appropraitions Committee and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Doctrine and Speculation in Schleiermacher's Glaubenslehre

Author : Thomas H. Curran
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110876914
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Doctrine and Speculation in Schleiermacher's Glaubenslehre written by Thomas H. Curran and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Modern Theatre: Speculation, The delinquent, Laugh when you can, Fortune's fool, Folly as it flies; by Frederick Reynolds

Author : Mrs. Inchbald
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Modern Theatre: Speculation, The delinquent, Laugh when you can, Fortune's fool, Folly as it flies; by Frederick Reynolds written by Mrs. Inchbald and published by . This book was released on 1811 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Intellectual History of Economic Normativities

Author : Mikkel Thorup
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137594160
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Intellectual History of Economic Normativities written by Mikkel Thorup and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-06-20 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book investigates the many ways that economic and moral reasoning interact, overlap and conflict both historically and at present. The book explores economic and moral thinking as a historically contingent pair using the concept of economic normativities. The contributors use case studies including economic practices, such as trade and finance and tax and famine reforms in the British colonies to explore the intellectual history of how economic and moral issues interrelate.

The A B C of Stock Speculation

Author : Samuel Armstrong Nelson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The A B C of Stock Speculation written by Samuel Armstrong Nelson and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Majendle, Lady Margaret. A French speculation. Moncrieff, H.J. Rufus Hickman of St. Botolph's. Lewis. C.L. Hans Preller: a legend of the Rhine falls. Kingsley, Maurice. The Puerto de Medina. Harcourt, Alfred. Jack and Minory

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Total Pages : 214 pages
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