The Speculator And The Meeting

Author : David Greig
Publisher : Methuen Drama
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Speculator and The Meeting written by David Greig and published by Methuen Drama. This book was released on 1999-09-13 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These two plays about cultural identity from Scotland and Catalonia, received their English-language premieres in August 1999 at Scotland's prestigious Edinburgh International Festival.

Author : David Greig
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408148587
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Speculator and The Meeting written by David Greig and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1999-09-13 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two plays about cultural identity from Scotland and Catalonia, which received their English-language premières in August 1999 at the Royal Lyceum Theatre as part of the Edinburgh International Festival in Traverse Theatre Company productions The Speculator by David Greig is set in Paris in 1720. The French playwright Pierre Marivaux is playing games with love and chance. Europe is in chaos. And John Law, a Scot from Edinburgh, is the richest and most powerful man in the world. He upsets order and alters the value of money. How long can his influence last? David Greig's new play is a rambunctious costume drama that toys with history and questions whether imagination can, or should, triumph over truth. Some events in the play are true. The rest is speculation. The Meeting by Lluïsa Cunillé and translated by John London, follows a string of chance encounters. A businessman on a journey crosses paths and shares his life with those of passing strangers. An old man is convinced there is buried treasure in the city park. A watchmaker talks to him about time. A young man and a traveller speak of their discontent. Shared pasts and common desires create a web of complexity in Luisa Cunillé's challenging play, turning random meetings into rendezvous with destiny. "David Greig is the most consistently interesting, prolific and artistically ambitious writer of his generation" (Scotsman) "Frequently compared to Harold Pinter...Cunillé has discovered a special style" (ABC, Madrid)

Author : David Greig
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Speculator written by David Greig and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Speculator' is an intelligent, passionate costume drama with anachronisms about the illusionary quality of wealth, set in Paris in 1720. Europe is in chaos. The French playwright Pierre Marivaux is playing games with love and chance, having an affair with his leading lady. And John Law, a Scot from Edinburgh, is the richest and most powerful man in the world: he has persuaded everyone that pieces of paper are worth more than gold. France has given up on petty metal currency, its wealth based on shares of the new lands in America. As only Law understands the abstractions of his financial system, how long can the dream last? 'The Speculator' was first performed in Catalan in 1999 at the Mercat de les Flors, Barcelona; it was first performed in English at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh in the same year.

Author : Emily Lambert
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465022979
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Futures written by Emily Lambert and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2010-12-28 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Futures, Emily Lambert, senior writer at Forbes magazine, tells us the rich and dramatic history of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and Chicago Board of Trade, which together comprised the original, most bustling futures market in the world. She details the emergence of the futures business as a kind of meeting place for gamblers and farmers and its subsequent transformation into a sophisticated electronic market where contracts are traded at lightning-fast speeds. Lambert also details the disastrous effects of Wall Street's adoption of the futures contract without the rules and close-knit social bonds that had made trading it in Chicago work so well. Ultimately Lambert argues that the futures markets are the real "free" markets and that speculators, far from being mere parasites, can serve a vital economic and social function given the right architecture. The traditional futures market, she explains, because of its written and cultural limits, can serve as a useful example for how markets ought to work and become a tonic for our current financial ills.

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Speculator written by and published by . This book was released on 1870* with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Victor Niederhoffer
Publisher : Wiley
ISBN 13 : 9780471137474
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Education of a Speculator written by Victor Niederhoffer and published by Wiley. This book was released on 1997-01-14 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaim for The Education of a Speculator, a provocative and penetrating look into the mind, the soul, and the strategies of one of the most controversial traders of all time "A compelling and an entertaining read." -The Wall Street Journal "Victor Niederhoffer gives us page after page of distilled investment wisdom. Taken together, this is pure nectar to those who aim for consistently superior stock market performance." -Barron's "The Education of a Speculator offers plenty of insights into the way markets work, but the epiphanies are what a reader might expect from Lao-tzu rather than, say, Graham and Dodd." -Worth magazine "The Education of a Speculator is the first meaningful book on speculating. Successful speculating is as fine an art as chess, checkers, fishing, poker, tennis, painting, and music. Niederhoffer brings forth the best from each of these fields and shows the investor how their principles can enrich one's life and net worth." -Martin Edelston, President, Boardroom Inc., publishers of Boardroom Classics and Bottom Line/Personal "With an original mind and an eclectic approach, Victor Niederhoffer takes the reader from Brighton Beach to Wall Street, visiting all stops of interest along the way. What emerges is a book full of insights, useful to the professional and layman alike." -George Soros, Principal Investment Advisor, The Quantum Fund

Author : Arthur W. Cutten
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of a Speculator written by Arthur W. Cutten and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : International Law Association. Conference
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 818 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Report of the ... Conference written by International Law Association. Conference and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Victor Niederhoffer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9780471249481
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Education of a Speculator written by Victor Niederhoffer and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1998-03-19 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victor Niederhoffer, eine exzentrische, außergewöhnliche Persönlichkeit und ein äußerst erfolgreicher Börsenhändler, erzählt seine wirklich faszinierende Geschichte: Sein Leben, seine Ausbildung, seine Erfolge und Fehler, Gewinne und Verluste. In einem Geschäft, in dem es von Scharlatanen wimmelt, erfrischen derart realistische Worte. Mit vielen Hintergrundinformationen am Rande, beispielsweise über die Hillary-Clinton-Affäre. (06/98)

Author : Stephen Wyatt
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0955686849
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Speculator written by Stephen Wyatt and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sparkling stage version of Balzac's witty comedy about a financial speculator on his uppers. The perfect comic fable for our financial times!