“Review of Current Financial Literature,” Derivatives and Financial Instruments, IBFD, November/December 2003 Review financial lit
We are so blessed with financial literature today, that the biggest problem is how to decide what to use. When considering what I will include in my library, I look for a number of things: a good table of contents, a comprehensive index, and the number of references. Then I read the preface to see whether the author is a financial geek, but failed English, I flip through the text to see if there is a good organizing principle and I want to see if there are meaty examples and computer applications. In this review, I will consider two-book, as well as one article, and see whether they measure up to the standards I have set