The Money Game
George J.W. Goodman · 1968
The most literary book on Wall Street, written under the pen name 'Adam Smith.' Goodman captures the 1960s markets with novelistic flair and devastating psychological insight. His metaphor of 'the Game' reveals that most market participants are driven by unconscious motivations and identity needs as much as financial analysis. The market as mirror.
The case against
A period piece, gorgeously embalmed. Goodman is writing about the go-go market of 1968, gunslinger fund managers and all, and the specific machinery he describes died decades ago. You get aphorisms and atmosphere, no method. Read it as Wall Street's Mad Men era observing itself; just don't mistake the anthropology for advice.
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