Why do markets keep crashing and why are financial crises worse than ever? As a leading Wall Street risk manager, Rick Bookstaber has seen the ghost inside the machine and vividly shows us a world that is even riskier than we think.
Named a top business book of the year by the Financial Times, Kiplinger's Personal Finance, and Library Journal
Praise for A Demon of Our Own Design
"This book is powerful stuff. When the hero of the story is a cockroach, you are assured of a controversial, illuminating, and fascinating discovery of where the financial risks really lurk and how to avoid them. Bookstaber knows whereof he speaks."
-Peter L. Bernstein, author of Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk
"Are you ready for the real deal? An insider, everysider view of the Wall Street calamities that have kept investing tantalizingly hot and frighteningly volatile since the crash of '87. For an in-depth, curtains-open, and coolly written exposition of Wall Street, Bookstaber is my man."
-Mark Rubinstein
Professor of Finance, UC Berkeley
"He understands the inner workings of the financial markets. . . . A liberal sparkling of juicy stories from the trading floor."
-The Economist
"I cannot recommend this book too highly. It is a clear exposition of what the combination of derivatives, leverage, and hedge funds can do to the markets."
-Forbes.com
"Richard Bookstaber's fine book on modern financial innovation". Financial Times Wednesday 17 June 2008
