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Business Cycles and Equilibrium, Updated Edition
John Wiley and Sons Ltd, Nov 2009, Pages: 197
An updated look at what Fischer Black's ideas on business cycles and equilibrium mean today
Throughout his career, Fischer Black described a view of business fluctuations based on the idea that a well-developed economy will be continually in equilibrium. In the essays that constitute this book, which is one of only two books Black ever wrote, he explores this idea thoroughly and reaches some surprising conclusions.
With the newfound popularity of quantitative finance and risk management, the work of Fischer Black has garnered much attention. Business Cycles and Equilibrium-with its theory that economic and financial markets are in a continual equilibrium-is one of his books that still rings true today, given the current economic crisis. This Updated Edition clearly presents Black's classic theory on business cycles and the concept of equilibrium, and contains a new introduction by the person who knows Black best: Perry Mehrling, author of Fischer Black and the Revolutionary Idea of Finance (Wiley). Mehrling goes inside Black's life to uncover what was occurring during the time Black wrote Business Cycles and Equilibrium, while also shedding light on what Black would make of today's financial and economic meltdown and how he would best advise to move forward.
The essays within this book reach some interesting conclusions concerning the role of equilibrium in a developed economy
- Warns about the use and abuse of modeling
- Explains the risky business of risk in a straightforward and accessible style
- Contains chapters dedicated to 'the effects of uncontrolled banking,' 'the trouble with econometric models,' and 'the effects of noise on investing'
- Includes commentary on Black's life and work at the time Business Cycles and Equilibrium was written as well as insight as to what Black would make of the current financial meltdown
Engaging and informative, the Updated Edition of Business Cycles and Equilibrium will give you a better understanding of what is really going on during these uncertain and volatile financial times
Fischer Black opens his Introduction to Business Cycles and Equilibrium with the following: 'Since the late 1960s I have been working on theories that depend on the idea that economic and financial markets are in continual equilibrium. Equilibrium means there are no opportunities to make abnormal profits; more generally, it means that there are no easy ways for people to shift positions in a way that makes everyone better off.' With chapters dedicated to 'the effects of uncontrolled banking,' 'the trouble with econometric models,' and 'the effects of noise.' Black foresaw the risky business of risk before others. He was before his time. His theory and application are relevant to today's crisis, and with the addition of a new Introduction, Business Cycles and Equilibrium Updated Edition will shed some light on the how's and why's of the financial and economic breakdown.
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