The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street - Tapa dura

"This wise and witty book is must reading for anyone who wonders what makes financial markets tick. Even those who have wrestled with this question for years will be glad to have read Fox's compelling history."--Peter Bernstein, author of Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk

"A tough, tasty steak of a book."--Dan Neil, Los Angeles Times

"A thoughtful, often fascinating, always illuminating history of the idea of market rationality."--Cory Doctorow, boingboing.net

"Fox makes business history thrilling."--St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"An intellectual tour-de-force..."--The Economist

"A lucid, lively and learned account."--Barron's

"Do we really need yet another book about the financial crisis? Yes, we do -- because this one is different. Fox's book is not an idle exercise in intellectual history, which makes it a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the mess we're in."--Paul Krugman, New York Times Book Review

"Impressively broad and richly researched."--Financial Times

"Good wonky fun."--Barry Ritholz, The Big Picture blog

"Justin Fox is a truly insightful fellow who can see things with his own eyes--a rare, very rare attribute."--Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of The Black Swan

Examines the rise and fall of the efficient markets theory, the development of modern finance, and the rise of behavioral economics, in an account that draws on interviews with top thinkers while demystifying the ideas that forged the modern market. 30,000 first printing.