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   Investment Thoughts - Beyond Finance

Beyond Finance

Drawing  Ideas, Inspiration and Models from other Fields

 

 

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Attention and awareness in stage magic: turning tricks into research
Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 30 July 2008 , Stephen L. Macknik, Mac King, James Randi, Apollo Robbins, Teller, John Thompson & Susana Martinez-Conde

I Am a Strange Loop
I Am a Strange Loop argues that the key to understanding selves and consciousness is the "strange loop"--a special kind of abstract feedback loop inhabiting our brains.
Perseus Publishing, March 2007 , Douglas R. Hofstadter

Close, beneficial associations between creatures of different species are nothing unusual
These pretty little fish lead lives of enviable indolence. As their name suggests, they live with shrimp (often, a pair). The shrimp build and maintain a burrow, which the goby and shrimp live in together (...) The goby just sits in the entrance of the burrow, keeping guard and warning the shrimp, which is nearly blind, of danger.
The New York Times, April 8, 2008 , Olivia Judson

Tsukiji: The Fish Market at the Center of the World
A vivid and fascinating ethnography of the world's largest marketplace for fresh and frozen seafood, Tokyo's gigantic Tsukiji market, where $6 billion worth of fish trades hands each year.
University of California Press, June 2004 , Theodore C. Bestor

The Sushi Economy: Globalization and the Making of a Modern Delicacy
"You're trying to tell me that tuna would sell in Japan? Who'd eat such fish?" A fisherman's reply to two Japanese businessmen on Canada's eastern province in October 1971. Bluefin, it turned out, were a long-standing nuisance to the cod fishermen, who oten found their nets ruined by the tuna enmeshed in them.
Penguin Group (USA), May 2007 , Sasha Issenberg

Sweetness and Power : The Place of Sugar in Modern History
Shows how the intelligent analysis of the history of a single commodity can be used to pry open the history of an entire world of social relationships and human behavior
Penguin Books, August 1986 , Sidney Wilfred Mintz

Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai
This riveting "biography of a nobody" offers a rare view of empire from the glimpse of everyday life in China and an unvarnished portrait of the colonial experience.
Columbia University Press, November 2003 , Robert A. Bickers

Swarm theory and the power of the collective
I have always held a particular fascination at the way in which nature organizes itself or, more specifically, the way in which certain organisms when grouped together behave in a perfectly harmonious and coordinated manner, almost giving the impression of existence as a single entity. Swarming, by the way, refers to the coordinated behavior of an aggregation of creatures such as fish, insects, birds or microorganisms.
Lobnek Wealth Management , Altug Ulkumen

Tastes of Paradise: A Social History of Spices, Stimulants, and Intoxicants
The urge to please the palate and stimulate, benumb, or pleasure the senses arose at the dawn of the modern age to dovetail with the needs of the rising merchant class and the capitalism it spawned.
Vintage Books, July 1993 , Wolfgang Schivelbusch

The Theory of Moral Sentiments
First published in 1759, Adam Smith's work on human nature has been somehow overshadowed by the "(...) Wealth of Nations". Some of his observations could fit in a behavioral finance context.
Adam Smith


 

Themes

 

Asia

Bonds

Bubbles and Crashes

Business Cycles
Central Banks

China

Commodities
Contrarian

Corporates

Creative Destruction
Credit Crunch

Currencies

Current Account

Deflation
Depression 

Equity
Europe
Financial Crisis
Fiscal Policy

Germany

Gloom and Doom
Gold

Government Debt

Historical Patterns

Household Debt
Inflation

Interest Rates

Japan

Market Timing

Misperceptions

Monetary Policy
Oil
Panics
Permabears
PIIGS
Predictions

Productivity
Real Estate

Seasonality

Sovereign Bonds
Systemic Risk

Switzerland

Tail Risk

Technology

Tipping Point
Trade Balance

U.S.A.
Uncertainty

Valuations

Yield