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Author's Note xi
Introduction: Finance and the Good Life 1 Chapter 1 The Wheel of Fortune 11 The Fliteraft Parable The Quincunx From Bottomry to Tontines We Are All Insurance Companies Wallace Stevens and Ideas of Order Chapter 2 Risky Business 35 Lizzy Bennet as Risk Manager If Isaac Newton Had Worked at Goldman Sachs I Would Prefer Not To Stephen Curry, Stringer Bell, and the Only Free Lunch in Finance The Negative Betas of Your Life Chapter 3 On Value 58 The Parable of the Talents The Cruel Logic of Value Creation Is Education Worth It? Your Terminal Values The Talents of Samuel Johnson and John Milton Alpha-Beta Soup Have You Financed? Chapter 4 Becoming a Producer 75 Biafystock and Bloom on Corporate Governance Apple and Tootsie Roll A Daisy Chain of Principals and Agents Vyse vs. Emerson Mel Brooks on Freud A Blank Sheet of Paper Chapter 5 Romance Without Finance 97 Working Girl The Dowry Fund of Renaissance Italy The M&A Pages A May-December Romance Mergers and Marriages Gone Wrong General Motors and Fisher Body Romance Without Finance Chapter 6 Living the Dream 120 Adam Smith vs. Jeremy Bentham on Leverage The Hooks of Gratitude and Obligation Jeff Koons vs. George Orwell on Leverage Mr. Stevens and Debt Overhang The Power of Commitments Popeye in Las Vegas Chapter 7 Failing Forward 142 The Man Who Could Have Been on the $10 Bill The Bankruptcy Act of 1800 An Automatic Slay A Strategic Bankruptcy at American Airlines Agamemnon, Arjuna, Hecuba, and Bankruptcy Chapter 8 Why Everyone Hates Finance 161 The Temptation of Pakhom The Lobster and the Squid More and More Is Less and Less The Asshole Theory of Finance Alexandra Bergson as Finance Hero Afterword 175 Acknowledgments 179 Notes 182 Illustration Credits 215 Index 216 |
Mihir A. Desai
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