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Pricing Money: A beginner's guide to money, bonds, futures and swaps

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Re: Pricing Money: A beginner's guide to money, bonds, futures and swaps

#12

Would love to be able to buy a printed copy.

On a related note: does anyone have good recommendations for printing services that can print and bind an online PDF, etc? I've looked into lulu.com and printme1.com but haven't used either for this purpose.

I've wanted to do something similar for some of Beej's guides that are not in regular print, and would definitely consider for this too.

Re: Pricing Money: A beginner's guide to money, bonds, futures and swaps

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post #13

Would love to be able to buy a printed copy.

Um, the second paragraph has a link [0] to Wiley's page for it, which only offers a paperback edition. [0] https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Pricing+Money:+A+Beginner's+Guid...

Para says (with links):

  While stocks last, hard copies of Pricing Money can still be purchased from Wiley, Waterstones, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com, Amazon.fr, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.jp, Abe books, as well as other bookshops: cite ISBN 0‑471‑48700‑7

Re: Pricing Money: A beginner's guide to money, bonds, futures and swaps

#16

Would love to be able to buy a printed copy.

On a related note: does anyone have good recommendations for printing services that can print and bind an online PDF, etc? I've looked into lulu.com and printme1.com but haven't used either for this purpose. I've wanted to do something similar for some of Beej's guides that are not in regular print, and would definitely consider for this too.

I had a college course use Lulu to print the notes into a textbook. The quality was good for a paperback. I think you're limited to black and white though. The formatting of the TeX notes could have been better, but that's probably on the professor to have fixed.

Re: Pricing Money: A beginner's guide to money, bonds, futures and swaps

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This is an excellent resource and a great read, but DAMN do money markets seem stupid as all get out to me. Where is the productive output of all these arbitrage shell games? How is this more than an abysmal waste of time and resources simply to make a small handful of bankers richer?

Re: Pricing Money: A beginner's guide to money, bonds, futures and swaps

#18

This is an excellent resource and a great read, but DAMN do money markets seem stupid as all get out to me. Where is the productive output of all these arbitrage shell games? How is this more than an abysmal waste of time and resources simply to make a small handful of bankers richer?

Great questions, but no reply will be coming at you.

Except an apologetic nonsense-logic-it-is-obvious-it-works trope.

Only product is the profit.

Re: Pricing Money: A beginner's guide to money, bonds, futures and swaps

#19

This is an excellent resource and a great read, but DAMN do money markets seem stupid as all get out to me. Where is the productive output of all these arbitrage shell games? How is this more than an abysmal waste of time and resources simply to make a small handful of bankers richer?

Risk management is the product. Surely you agree that a product that reduces risk is worth something, right?

Re: Pricing Money: A beginner's guide to money, bonds, futures and swaps

#20

Would love to be able to buy a printed copy.

On a related note: does anyone have good recommendations for printing services that can print and bind an online PDF, etc? I've looked into lulu.com and printme1.com but haven't used either for this purpose. I've wanted to do something similar for some of Beej's guides that are not in regular print, and would definitely consider for this too.

I looked at lulu for printing Scott Alexander's Unsong. Their terms of service declaim [0] anyone looking to print content that they do not have copyright or a license for. That's the entire point of copyright.

I recommend that you contact beej directly.

[0] https://www.lulu.com/terms-and-conditions section 3 paragraph 3

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