Markets: Who Plays, Who Risks, Who Gains, Who Loses

by Martin Mayer

Markets tells financiers, and households become the elements of economics--prices, production, growth, stagnation. Major tour.

Genres: Finance

303 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1988

About the author

Martin Mayer was an American economist and writer.

Reviews

[Red Fox]

A little dated by this point, but a good analysis of how the markets work, and the kinds of people who participate in the markets.

Citicorp chairman George Moore said that there are 4 kinds of people with whom you can't reason - "great chefs, beautiful women, opera singers and FX traders"

Oliver Wendell Holmes - "Certainty is generally an illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man."

Bill Clinton quoted in the WSJ - "You mean to tell me that the success of the program and my re-election hinges on the Federal Reserve and a bunch of f-ing bond traders?"