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**A new, evolutionary explanation of markets and investor behavior** Half of all Americans have money in the stock market, yet economists can’t agree on whether investors and markets are rational and efficient, as modern financial theory assumes, or irrational and inefficient, as behavioral economists believe. The debate is one of the biggest in economics, and the value or futility of investment management and financial regulation hangs on the answer. In this groundbreaking book, Andrew Lo transforms the debate with a powerful new framework in which rationality and irrationality coexist—the Adaptive Markets Hypothesis. Drawing on psychology, evolutionary biology, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and other fields, __Adaptive Markets__ shows that the theory of market efficiency is incomplete. When markets are unstable, investors react instinctively, creating inefficiencies for others to exploit. Lo’s new paradigm explains how financial evolution shapes behavior and markets at the speed of thought—a fact revealed by swings between stability and crisis, profit and loss, and innovation and regulation. An ambitious new answer to fundamental questions about economics and investing, __Adaptive Markets__ is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how markets really work. Cover; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; Financial Fear Factor; Don't Try This At Home; The Great Divide; It's The Environment, Stupid!; Revenge Of The Nerds; Chapter 1. Are We All Homo Economicus Now?; Tragedy And The Wisdom Of Crowds; A Random Walk Through History; The Birth Of Efficient Markets; Efficient Markets Unpacked; What To Expect When You're Expecting; Efficient Markets In Action; Chapter 2. If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich?; Rejecting The Random Walk; Risk Versus Uncertainty And The Ellsberg Paradox; Losing Hurts More Than Winning Feels Good No-limit Texas Hold 'em, Rogue Traders, And Regulatorsprobability Matching And March Madness; Humans As Prediction Machines; It Takes A Theory To Beat A Theory; Culture Shock; Chapter 3. If You're So Rich, Why Aren't You Smart?; Looking Under The Hood; The Microscope Of Neuroscience; Fear; Pain; Pleasure And Greed; Wired-up Traders; The Stuff Good Traders Are Made Of; Mind Over Money Via Neural Currency; I Want It All, And I Want It Now; Chapter 4. The Power Of Narrative; A New Meaning Of Rationality; The Human Fire Alarm And Sprinkler System; The Fear Factor And Finance I Know You Know That I Knowhomo Economicus And The Left Hemisphere; The Prefrontal Cortex As Ceo; The Power Of Self-fulfilling Prophecies; Barbara Ficalora, The Best Third Grade Teacher Ever; Narrative Is Intelligence; Chapter 5. The Evolution Revolution; A Day At The Zoo; The Evolution Revolution; Just-so Stories Or Scientific Fact?; The Power Of Selection; Variety Is The Spice Of Life; It's The Environment, Stupid!; The Emergence Of Homo Sapiens; Enter Homo Economicus; An Evolutionary Pecking Order; Swedish Twins And Savings; Evolution At The Speed Of Thought Sociobiology And Evolutionary Psychologysurvival Of The Richest?; Chapter 6. The Adaptive Markets Hypothesis; It Takes A Theory To Beat A Theory; Simon Says Satisfice; The Superman Jacket; The Adaptive Markets Hypothesis; Probability Matching Explained; Nature Abhors An Undiversified Bet; It's The Environment, Stupid! All Over Again; Homo Economicus And Idiosyncratic Risk; The Origin Of Risk Aversion; Efficient Versus Adaptive Markets; Waylaid By Physics Envy; On The Shoulders Of Giants; Chapter 7. The Galapagos Islands Of Finance; Quantum Mechanics; Mission Impossible The Islands Of Evolutionhedge Fund Archipelago; An Evolutionary History Of The Hedge Fund; The Birth Of Quants; The Revenge Of The Nerds; Quant Goes Mainstream; The Evolution Of The Random Walk; Cell Phones And Kerala Fishermen; Chapter 8. Adaptive Markets In Action; The Traditional Investment Paradigm; The Great Modulation; A New World Order; Risk/reward And Punishment; The Democratization Of Investing; New Species Of Index Funds; Smart Beta Versus Dumb Sigma; Disbanding The Alpha Beta Sigma Fraternity; The Random Walk Revisited; A New Investment Paradigm; The Quant Meltdown Of August 2007 Andrew W. Lo ; With A New Afterword By The Author. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Electronic Reproduction. Baltimore, Md Available Via World Wide Web.

A new, evolutionary explanation of markets and investor behavior

Half of all Americans have money in the stock market, yet economists can't agree on whether investors and markets are rational and efficient, as modern financial theory assumes, or irrational and inefficient, as behavioral economists believe. The debate is one of the biggest in economics, and the value or futility of investment management and financial regulation hangs on the answer. In this groundbreaking book, Andrew Lo transforms the debate with a powerful new framework in which rationality and irrationality coexist-the Adaptive Markets Hypothesis. Drawing on psychology, evolutionary biology, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and other fields,Adaptive Markets shows that the theory of market efficiency is incomplete. When markets are unstable, investors react instinctively, creating inefficiencies for others to exploit. Lo's new paradigm explains how financial evolution shapes behavior and markets at the speed of thought-a fact revealed by swings between stability and crisis, profit and loss, and innovation and regulation. An ambitious new answer to fundamental questions about economics and investing,Adaptive Markets is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how markets really work "Half of all Americans have money in the stock market, yet economists can't agree on whether investors and markets are ration and efficient, as modern financial theory assumes, or irrational and inefficient, as behavioral economists believe - and as financial bubbles, crashes, and crises suggest. This is one of the biggest debates in economics, and the value or futility of investment management and financial regulation hang on the outcome. In this groundbreaking book, Andrew Lo cuts through this debate with a new framework, the Adaptive Markets Hypothesis, in which rationality and irrationality coexist. Drawing on psychology, evolutionary biology, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and other fields, "Adaptive Markets" shows that the theory of marked efficiency isn't wrong but merely incomplete. When markets are unstable, investors react instinctively, creating inefficiencies for others to exploit. Lo's new paradigm explains how financial evolution shapes behavior and markets at the speed of thought--a fact revealed by swings between stability and crisis, profit and loss, and innovation and regulation."--Provided by publisher "Half of all Americans have money in the stock market, yet economists can't agree on whether investors and markets are ration and efficient, as modern financial theory assumes, or irrational and inefficient, as behavioral economists believe - and as financial bubbles, crashes, and crises suggest. This is one of the biggest debates in economics, and the value or futility of investment management and financial regulation hang on the outcome. In this groundbreaking book, Andrew Lo cuts through this debate with a new framework, the Adaptive Markets Hypothesis, in which rationality and irrationality coexist. Drawing on psychology, evolutionary biology, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and other fields, "Adaptive Markets" shows that the theory of marked efficiency isn't wrong but merely incomplete. When markets are unstable, investors react instinctively, creating inefficiencies for others to exploit. Lo's new paradigm explains how financial evolution shapes behavior and markets at the speed of thought - a fact revealed by swings between stability and crisis, profit and loss, and innovation and regulation."--Inside flap. Cover Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought Copyright Dedication Contents Adaptive Markets Introduction 1 Are We All Homo economicus Now? 2 If You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t You Rich? 3 If You’re So Rich, Why Aren’t You Smart? 4 The Power of Narrative 5 The Evolution Revolution 6 The Adaptive Markets Hypothesis 7 The Galapagos Islands of Finance 8 Adaptive Markets in Action 9 Fear, Greed, and Financial Crisis 10 Finance Behaving Badly 11 Fixing Finance 12 To Boldly Go Where No Financier Has Gone Before Afterword Notes References Acknowledgments Index