Fat Tail: The Power of Political Knowledge for Strategic Investing

by Ian Bremmer and Preston Keat

Book Overview

In recent years, investors have learned the hard truth that in the international economy, politics often matters at least as much as economic fundamentals for the performance of global markets. Too many companies and investors haven't yet learned to read the warning signs: their expertise lies much more in economics than politics, and the temptation is to hope that highly volatile situations such as the 2008 Georgia-Russia confrontation will be few...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195328558
• ISBN13: 9780195328554
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.5"