Overview
"This is a modern classic." —Paul A. Samuelson, First American Nobel Prize Winner in Economics
"The best book there is about the stock market and all that goes with it." —The New York Times Book Review
"Anyone whose orientation is toward where the action is, where the happenings happen, should buy a copy of The Money Game and read it with due diligence." —Book World
" 'Adam Smith' is a veteran observer and commentator on the events and people of Wall Street.... His thorough knowledge of financial affairs gives his observations a great degree of authenticity. But the joy of reading this book comes from his delightful sense of humor. He is a lively and ingeniously witty writer who never stoops to acerbity. None of the solemn, sacred cows of Wall Street escapes debunking." —Library Journal
Synopsis
First published in 1968, translated into 30 languages, and hailed by Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Samuelson as "a modern classic", this extraordinary piece of New Journalism about the go-go years of Wall Street in the 1960s is, in the words of its true author, George Goodman, "a book about image and reality and identity and anxiety and money." As timely and relevant to investors today as it was to those of the Vietnam era, it contains lucid insights into everything from technical analysis and efficient market theory to Random Walks, crowd psychology, and what precipitates a market meltdown.
Biography
Writing under the pseudonym Adam Smith, George Goodman has published such financial bestsellers as The Money Game, Supermoney, Paper Money, and The Roaring Eighties. A former member of the editorial board of the New York Times, he has been an editor for Esquire Magazine and a founding member of New York Magazine and in the 1980s anchored and served as editor in chief of the Emmy-Award-winning PBS series Adam Smith's Money World.