04 November 2013

Top Five Articles from October: The Life of the Financial (and Nonfinancial) Mind

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1. Seven Nonfinancial Books That Made Me a Better Financial Professional

Investing demands that you be a polymath — knowing a lot about many things (including nonfinancial topics) and how those things interconnect into an organic whole. Jason Voss, CFA, shares some of the books that changed how he perceives and understands the world.

2. Nobel Prize a Nod to Our Murky Understanding of Markets

The contrasts among the work of the three men who won this year’s Nobel Prize in economics highlights the murky, unresolved nature of our knowledge about how markets function. Nevertheless, the prize committee seems to have recognized that even conflicting theories can both be right, if only at points in time.

3. Confronting Ethical Dilemmas at Work: Why Do Good People Do Bad Things?

Ethics can be dangerous to your career. The danger may come not from your own ethics but from the ethics of people around you and the organization of which you are a part. At work, you may be called upon to do things that turn out to be unethical or even illegal. What should you do if that occurs?

4. Should Retirement Savings Be Mandatory? (Forum)

In the United States, and in many other countries, only a fraction of households have saved enough to look forward to a comfortable retirement. For those without a sizable nest egg, the so-called “golden years” are a grim prospect. Not surprisingly, governments around the globe are grappling with how their citizens will afford retirement.

5. Futurology — Can Things Only Get Better or Worse?

The only certainty about the future is that it will continue to serve as an endless source of debate for intellectuals and economists.

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About the Author(s)

Jennifer Curry

Jennifer Curry formerly served as managing editor of the Enterprising Investor. Previously, she was the social media manager at the New York Society of Security Analysts (NYSSA). Prior to her work at NYSSA, Curry worked as the senior project editor for a nonfiction imprint at Barnes & Noble Publishing and as an assistant editor at the H.W. Wilson Company. She is the editor of several volumes in the Reference Shelf series, and her writing has appeared in Smithsonian, IndustryWeek, Barnes & Noble Review, and other publications. Curry holds a BS in journalism and a BA in anthropology from the University of Kansas, and an MA in anthropology from Hunter College, City University of New York.