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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MONEY GAME by 'Adam Smith.' 302 pages. Random House...
...Adam Smith" has been read with glee in the Big Board jungle ever since his antic commentaries about the stock market first appeared in New York magazine. The articles were not only clear and authentic, but also sharply satirical. Based on those articles, The Money-Game is a highly original look at the art of investing, as well as a modest and amusing contribution to popular psychology. Smith/Goodman tells about the young woman who confuses her shares in Comsat with procreative urges ("'Every time they fire off one of those satellites, I think, that's mine, that...
...Smith/Goodman says, Brown fails to account for the fun that can be had in mating dollars with other kinds of paper for "effortless" profit. For the happy few with surplus chips and the nerves to separate reality from sublimated desires and anxieties, investing can be a more stimulating game than working...
...name of the game, says the author is "What Is Everybody Else Doing?" For only when the player knows what the crowd is thinking can he stay ahead. Chartists, mathematicians, statisticians, computers and dart throwers all get a chance to show their stuff under his skeptical gaze. Drawing from Gustave le Bon's 1895 book The Crowd, he views the investing public as a highly volatile and irrational mass mind that usually overreacts and does the wrong thing. Yet Smith/Goodman is neither dogmatist nor snob, as evidenced by his parody of Kipling: "If you can keep your head when...
...Gnome's Game. The most disturbing news in The Money Game comes from that classic figure of the financial nether world, the Gnome of Zurich,* whose hunger for gold is only slightly less keen than his appetite for pessimism. The Gnome's credo: Men cannot manage their affairs rationally for very long periods. Hence, politicians promise things that cannot be paid for, trade balances totter, gold reserves slip away, and the dollar faces a crisis of belief...