Mihir Desai

"Entertaining and informative. Desai takes us on a journey through the fundamentals of finance, from asset pricing to risk and risk management, via options, mergers, debt, and bankruptcy."- John Lanchester, The New Yorker"A fascinating new perspective on modern finance, " -Oliver Hart, 2016 Nobel Laureate in Economics"Lucid, witty and delightfully erudite... From the French revolution to film noir, from the history of probability to Jane Austen and The Simpsons, this is an astonishing intellectual feast." -Sebastian Mallaby, author of The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan GreenspanLonglisted for 2017 Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year In 1688, essayist Josef de la Vega described finance as both "the fairest and most deceitful business .