Tuckett Minding the Markets

An Emotional Finance View of Financial Instability
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-230-30782-7
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 232 Seiten

Reihe: Palgrave Economics & Finance Collection

Tuckett argues that most economists' explanations of the financial crisis miss its essence; they ignore critical components of human psychology. He offers a deeper understanding of financial market behaviour and investment processes by recognizing the role played by unconscious needs and fears in all investment activity.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tuckett, D.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Special Characteristics of Financial Assets Four Fund Managers Narratives, Minds and Groups Divided States Finding Phantastic Objects Experiencing News Divided Masters Experiencing Success and Failure Emotional Finance and New Economic Thinking Making Markets Safer

Über Autor(innen)

DAVID TUCKETT is Fellow of the Institute of Psychoanalysis and Professor at University College London, UK. Recently honoured with a Sigourney Award for Psychoanalysis, the highest prize in the field, Professor Tuckett has brought together his initial training as an Economist with his subsequent work in Sociology and Psychoanalysis to initiate a new line of research; the significance of which has been recognised with recent invitations to speak at the Global Economic Symposium and the Global Risks Network of the World Economic Forum. Previously Principal of the Health Education Studies Unit at Cambridge University and Editor in Chief of the , he is the author of many papers and several highly successful books.