{"product_id":"9780786164882","title":"Investment Philosophers and Financial Economists","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eInvestment philosophers\u003c\/b\u003e have long debated the role of money in a life well lived. Among their lessons are: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eEarn all you can. Save all you can. Give all you can. (John Wesley) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndustry, Frugality, Prudence. (Benjamin Franklin) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA part of all you earn is yours to keep. (George Clason) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePreparation, incubation, illumination, verification. (Bennett Goodspeed) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWork for yourself. Satisfy your customers. Be thrifty in all things. Leave the world a better place than you found it. (J. Paul Getty) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMake it easy to save. Make it difficult to spend. Control your debt. (Mark and Jo Ann Skousen) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKnow that you are free to act and think for yourself. (Rose Wilder Lane) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinancial economists\u003c\/b\u003e work to explain (and predict) the markets. Depending on how their theories match reality, their results are sometimes spectacular- and sometimes disastrous. Among the economists discussed are: \u003cb\u003eGeorge Soros\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eHarry Browne\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eGary Schilling\u003c\/b\u003e (who successfully anticipated macroeconomic shifts, e.g. in currency exchange rates or inflation); \u003cb\u003eIrving Fisher\u003c\/b\u003e (whose theories led to astoundingly wrong predictions about the Great Depression); \u003cb\u003eJohn Maynard Keynes\u003c\/b\u003e (a successful long-term investor who couldn't anticipate short-term events); and \u003cb\u003eFelix Somary\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eLudwig von Mises, and Friedrich Hayek\u003c\/b\u003e (Austrian economists whose theory of the business cycle led them to foresee the 1929 crash and the depression that followed).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knowledge Products, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47095723098352,"sku":"9780786164882","price":8.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780786164882_p0.jpg?v=1763665748","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780786164882","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}