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More Than You Know: Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventional Places (Updated and Expanded)
by Michael J. Mauboussin
from Columbia University Press
Customer Reviews:
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 
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pseudo-intellectual junk 
This book is easy to read quickly, and not worth reading slowly. It is an unorganized collection of short, repetitive essays that draw analogies between choosing investments and findings from psychology and other areas of science. Nothing here is novel to anyone who reads magazines like Wired, or book reviews in the Economist, among other sources. Nothing in this book is quantitatively precise or directly applicable. Everything is suggestive, that's all. Parts may be thought-provoking if you haven't seen... more info
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An Intelligent Book 
I bought a copy after seeing a rave review and for the first 50 pages or so this book held my breathless attention - a sort of freakonomics for the high-brow set. The fact that from that point onward I could pretty much skim the book was a sign of how fast knowledge is becoming disseminated these days - the ideas sounded so familiar (the unlikely events are much probable than most people think, the fat tails, etc, etc). This is not really a criticism - if I knew this before I bought the book, I would still... more info
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find your financial wisdom elsewhere
this man has been teaching finance (securities analysis) as an adjunct (part time) professor at columbia since the early 90's with self interests on wall street and beyond.
what that did for mba students at columbia was very little. if you check out the track record of mutual funds at his most recent position (as chief investment officer) at legg mason (his 5th in 20 years), it's a below average one.
read something from bernstein and fischer instead.
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Practical Financial Wisdom.
Practical information any ivestor should keep in mind. Potentially very helpful if one heeds to the ideas in this book. The first 75% of the book is very tight, but towards the end there is some repetition. Overall, nice read.
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