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He helped start institutional investor magazine in the 1960s and was executive editor of esquire in the 1970s. Paragraph number are printed inside brackets on the left margin and the numbering restarts at the beginning of every section. Darst, author of the art of asset allocation, managing director and chief. In adam smiths day a sentiment could be anything on a spectrum with feelings at one end and opinions at the other. But 17 years earlier in 1759, smith had proposed a theory of human behavior that looks anything but selfinterested. Adam smith was the first to introduce an obscure fund manager in omaha, nebraska, named warren buffett. We took the name in part from one of the greatest books about finance every written. With the passage of time, supermoney has, if anything, added to its power to inspire, arouse, provoke, motivate, inform, illuminate, entertain, and guide a whole new generation of readers, while marvelously reprising the global money show for earlier fans. This work of his is strongly tilted in the feeling direction see. Making good a lacuna neri salvadori and rodolfo signorino1 1. The money game by adam smith aka george goodman book.
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