Do we really need another book about derivatives? When john Cox and I wrote our book Options Markets about 20 years ago, the best book then available was Gary Gastineau's The Stock Options Manual. Since our book was the first child of the modern Black-Scholes era, it did meet an important need. But today there are, it seems, books beyond counting about derivatives, including very good ones such as john Hull's Options, Futures and Other Derivatives and Paul Wilmott's encyclopedic Derivatives: The Theory and Practice of Financial Engineering.
But very few of these newer books examine derivatives with a real attempt to explain the underlying economic theory and its practical limitations. True, in other books you will see the mathematics and be taken by the hand through numerous examples, but will you understand at a "gut" level what is really going on? This book tries its best to provide such insight....
Price: 5 USD
All books are in English, presented in format of doc or pdf, printable.
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