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"This exceptional book provides valuable insights into the evolution of financial economics from the perspective of a major player."
-- Robert Litzenberger, Hopkinson Professor Emeritus of Investment Banking, Univ. of Pennsylvania; and retired partner, Goldman Sachs
A History of the Theory of Investments is about ideas -- where they come from, how they evolve, and why they are instrumental in preparing the future for new ideas. Author Mark Rubinstein writes history by rewriting history. In unearthing long-forgotten books and journals, he corrects past oversights to assign credit where credit is due and assembles a remarkable history that is unquestionable in its accuracy and unprecedented in its power.
Exploring key turning points in the development of investment theory, through the critical prism of award-winning investment theory and asset pricing expert Mark Rubinstein, this groundbreaking resource follows the chronological development of investment theory over centuries, exploring the inner workings of great theoretical breakthroughs while pointing out contributions made by often unsung contributors to some of investment's most influential ideas and models.
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""This exceptional book provides valuable insights into the evolution of financial economics from the perspective of a major player.""-- Robert Litzenberger, Hopkinson Professor Emeritus of Investment Banking, Univ. of Pennsylvania; and retired partner, Goldman Sachs A History of the Theory of Investments is about ideas -- where they come from, how they evolve, and why they are instrumental in preparing the future for new ideas. Author Mark Rubinstein writes history by rewriting history. In unearthing long-forgotten books and journals, he corrects past oversights to assign credit where credit is due and assembles a remarkable history that is unquestionable in its accuracy and unprecedented in its power. Exploring key turning points in the development of investment theory, through the critical prism of award-winning investment theory and asset pricing expert Mark Rubinstein, this groundbreaking resource follows the chronological development of investment theory over centuries, exploring the inner workings of great theoretical breakthroughs while pointing out contributions made by often unsung contributors to some of investment's most influential ideas and models.
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A Treasure Trove of Historical Context.......2006-11-25
I'm about halfway through the book and must say that I have been pleasantly surprised. I bought the book as a quick way to present accurate historical context to my students. In my opinion, knowledge does not grow; it evolves. A study of that evolution, with the paths not chosen, is an important step in mastering a discipline. This would be enough for me to recommend the book, but there's much more.
Here's a small sample of the items that I've gleaned so far.
What is the intersection of business math, gambling gmaes, and Pascal's triangle? (The graphic that he uses look suspiciously like a binomial tree....) The shift from insurance products to investments as the driver of the mathematics of finance. What is the Fisher separation theorem (which my students consider to be obvious) and why is it not obvious? The importance of the Ph.D. thesis of John Burr Williams, one of the most important economists of which you've probably never heard. How Ben Graham nearly got the Modigliani-Miller theorem but didn't believe that his conclusion was realistic.
This is just from the first hundred pages. I've already bought about a dozen books to extend my reading and am downloading dozens of articles from JSTOR. Most of us learned investment theory from a textbook. I strongly suggest that you add this book, and its contextual knowledge, to your library.
Not bad as a bibliography, but so what?.......2006-10-28
A better book for the layman is anything by William Bernstein. As Nobel Prize winner Sharpe says on the cover, this is a "idiosyncratic and eclectic" book--a bibliography that's annotated.
After you have learned a subject, of course it's fun to go through archival historic documents and comment on them. Every discipline does this. But it proves nothing except erudition.
One problem I have with this book is that it doesn't teach you anything you don't already know--and if you don't already know it, you won't learn it from this book.
Also it's too expensive, except by those who wish to put on airs and display it on their bookshelf.
Finally, nearly all the vaunted theories of finance have analogs (and digital equivalents) in applied mathematics used in electrical engineering and physics. You could argue that financial engineering is simply cribbing these fields.
BTW I have not read this book, but have added it to my 'wish list' and eventually will get around to reading it.
Probably one of the best books I have ever read.......2006-06-12
This is arguably one of the best books that I have read. Almost everything relevant to finance and investments is covered in this book, including a good historical discussion of the theories of investment. In addition, Mark Rubinstein has a very clear and simple writing style that transforms complex concepts into words. The proofs are done in a fashion that most readers can understand, and the sections are divided up in easy to break-up sections. This is definitely a must read for any serious student of finance. All of the seminal work in finance is discussed in this text, and this can be used as a guide to asset pricing, corporate finance, investments, and other finance courses. In fact, I would have used this as a supplement to reading journal articles if it were available in the past.
Rubinstein has done it agian!.......2006-04-25
This book is excellent; it gives a new insight in the history of discoveries in financial economics like no other book. The book is nicely organized with a very useful "Index of Ideas".
What is the ancient history of Pascal's triangle, that again is an important building block for the Cox-Ross-Rubinstein binomial tree? Who was the first to circulate a paper on how time varying volatility was related to fat tailed distributions? The book has some interesting surprises for most of us, and along this historical path Rubinstein shares detailed wisdom on many financial models.
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Stunning, Imaginative, Accurate.......2006-03-07
Mark Rubinstein is a man who likes to think for himself, which is a good thing for the rest of us. Most readers will be familiar with Mark's contributions to financial economics primarily through his co-authorship, with John Cox and Steve Ross, of the binomial options pricing model - no mean feat, that. But his interests and contributions are far more broad. My personal favorite paper of Mark's is his relatively overlooked "The Strong Case for the Generalized Logarithmic Utility Model as the Premier Model of Financial Markets" [GLUM], published in 1977 as the second chapter of Haim Levy and Marshall Sarnatt's "Financial Decision Making under Uncertainty" (Academic Press New York 1977); this is a wonderful model which places restrictions on tastes a la Arrow, Debreau, Hirshleifer, Cass, Stiglitz , Hakansson, Kraus, Grauer and Litzenberger, rather than placing restrictions on beliefs as in the more conventional models commonly understood to represent "Modern Portfolio Theory", i.e., Markowitz, Sharpe, Treynor, Lintner, Mossin, Fama, Jensen, Black, Scholes and Merton. In the 1977 GLUM paper, Rubinstein notes that the latter, MPT-type, models are not necessarily superior to the former type and chalks their popularity up to historical happenstance and ideological path-dependence: "Men were not lacking in evidence, but inherited habits of thought, which often extended beyond science proper to a worldview, [and] caused them to cling stubbornly to superannuated ideas."
In "A History of the Theory of Investments", Rubinstein achieves two things: first, he presents his own annotated bibliography of nearly 200 of the most important works in theoretical financial economics; second, he presents a much better etiology of these ideas than a reader might find in a textbook presentation, working diligently to correct examples of Robert K. Merton's "Matthew effect". Marrying these two objectives, a daunting task for most mere mortals, seems to have been easy for Mark Rubinstein. He notes, "...much of the forgotten truth about the origins of ideas in financial economics is there for all to see, in older books residing on library shelves or in past journals now often available in electronic form [e.g., JSTOR]. Much of the history of investments has only been rewritten by the victors, and can be corrected from primary sources." As a student, and later as a professor and even practitioner, Rubinstein spent untold time poring through countless thousands of documents -- primary material, methodically working his way forward and backward through the more and less famous papers and their citations and references in the literature, in order to learn these ideas for himself. Along the way he contributed quite a bit himself. A gift to us all was his willingness to publish his notes on each of what he deems to be the 180 or so most important contributions to the field.
Delineating three periods in the literature as "ancient" (pre-1950), "classical" (1950 - 1980, and "modern" (post-1980), Rubinstein educates us about 40 ancient papers, from Leonardo of Pisa's 1202 "Liber Abaci" through Leonard Jimmie Savage's 1954 "Foundations of Statistics", including the works of Pascal, Fermat, Huygens, de Witt, Halley, de Moivre, Bernoulli, Pareto, Arrow, Bachelier, Knight, Keynes, Working, Hicks, Fisher, Cowles, Graham, Williams, Macaulay, von Hayek, von Neumann, Morgenstern, Friedman, and others, even throwing in Kahneman and Tversky's 1979 Prospect Theory for good measure.
Following the "ancient" literature with the "classical" works, Rubinstein precedes Markowitz' 1952 "Portfolio Selection" with Clendenin's 1951 paper on stock price volatility. More than 100 papers are discussed in this section, including all the usual suspects as well as some unusual ones, including Roy, Arrow, Dreze (who along with others anticipated Harrison & Kreps' work on martingales and continuous states), Kendall, Cootner, Friedman, Tobin, Modigliani & [Merton] Miller (whose work was anticipated by J.B. Williams, in his 1938 "Law of the Conservation of Investment Value"), Debreau, Osborne, Alexander, Coase, Muth, Lucas, Stiglitz, Sharpe, Samuelson, Lorie, Pratt, Linter, Mossin, Treynor, Fama, Cohen, Pogue, Farrell, King, Rosenberg, Engle, Hakansson, Jensen, Leland, Roll, MacBeth, Litzenberger, Cass, Black, Scholes, [Robert C.] Merton, Hirshleifer, Rubinstein, Blume, Friend, Basu, Banz, Latane, LeRoy, Kraus, Cox, Grossman, Figlewski, Ross, Malkiel, Varian, Constantinides, Geske, [Edward] Miller, Levy, Rendleman, Bartter, concluding with Breeden's 1979 ICAPM. Rubinstein also includes Merton's 1987 "Simple Model" in the classical period.
Rubinstein's last section, the "modern" period, which admittedly contains little of the behavioral finance literature, covers about 30 significant papers from the famous Grossman and Stiglitz 1980 critique and Leland's 1980 paper on portfolio insurance to Brunnermeier and Parker's 2005 paper on asset pricing bubbles. Researchers in this section include many of those listed in the classical period, as well as Diamond, Verrecchia, [Ken] French, Schwert, Binder, Merges, Mehra, Prescott, Hong, Stein, Ohlson, Berk, Wang, Carhart, Daniel, Grinblatt, Titman, Wermers, Green, Naik, Sagi, Abreu, and Parker.
I wish Rubinstein's excellent History had been available back when I was a student roaming the stacks in the Lippincott library at Penn, poking into old dusty tomes and spending what little money I had Xeroxing all of those old wonderful papers, learning "ancient" and "classical" ideas the hard way. From the APT to the Zero-beta CAPM, Mark Rubinstein has covered about 300 individual ideas in this unparalleled bibliography, with informed and detailed (but economical) discussion of nearly 200 worthy papers. Any serious financial economist should read, and re-read, this exquisite book.
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The Hidden Profit Center
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This cutting edge business fable tells the story of a beleaguered CEO who pumps up profits using lessons from an unlikely source.
Written for busy people, this fast, pithy read may change the way you run your company. If you thought good communication was just some warm and fuzzy "nice to have", this book will challenge your thinking.
The Hidden Profit Center is an eye opener. Use it to challenge all your people to find an exploit The Hidden Profit Center in your organization!
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Cute object lesson.......2003-11-16
This little book is another of those tales where the CEO is visited and advised by an unlikely character. We've seen a number of books in this genre, probably inspired by Charles Dickens and his ghosts of Christmases Past, Present, and Future. In this case, our CEO is visited by a cleaning lady who, with a flick of her feather-duster, takes him on journeys through his computer screen-a take-off on Alice in Wonderland's looking glass.
Stay with me. It gets better. After the unseen CEO observes some money-wasting behavior on the part of his employees, a rabbit appears with one of those old cash registers that made noise when its keys were pressed. This is a "five foot white rabbit wearing bright red gloves...This was one cool bunny!" OK, we're stretching this a bit far, but remember this book has risen from the ilk of bedtime stories.
The bunny calculates the cost of the errant employee behavior and, with a dramatic "ca-ching," informs the CEO how much money has been lost-through waste or missed opportunities in the scenario. This pattern is played out each night for a week as our beleaguered CEO gets a wake-up call about how inadequate communication and training is flushing company profits down the drain.
A cute tale, though one requiring some open imagination. Points are made and well-summarized at the back of the book. Most executives would benefit from the reminders. The $19.95 price tag seems a bit high for such a small book, but that money could be recovered quickly as the book's lessons are applied. I found that it was easy to anticipate what was coming next and the magic fairy and imagination-stretching bunny were a bit bothersome, the design kept the story light so the messages could be received.
This book has some value as a training tool for corporate executives. I could see getting copies for all members of a management team and asking them to read a chapter a night and discuss it over coffee and donuts in the morning. Results would be achieved.
Whatever your business, you need this book.......2003-06-01
A fable for our time, this gem of a book shows how quickly and easily a business can be damaged - even destroyed - by poor communication. We've all been there: meetings where nothing is decided, presentations where no one caters for the customer's needs, precious time wasted deciphering a badly written memo ... From niggling misunderstandings that chip away at staff motivation to executive-level muddle that can turn clients off and lose profits, Wilkie alerts us to the dangers we court when we neglect communication skills.
More than that, though, she offers practical and achievable solutions. This book speaks to everyone who wants to minimise problems and maximise profits. I recommend it highly.
A fable that makes communicaton dollars and cents.......2003-03-21
Helen Wilkie has written a book for our times. Whether you are starting a business or the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, no matter how you communicate or how often, you will learn one major lesson from this gentle but mighty fable: communication does pay. How much? That depends on whether you pay lip service to communication or if you dare make communication part and parcel of your business philosphy, from the CEO's office right down to the oder desk in the plant. Obvious, you say? Read the book before you answer that question.
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The service sector is considered to lag behind manufacturing in introducing quality management cultures. The leisure and tourism industry has tended to be even more dilatory, and so quality management was not given a high priority until recently. This book aims to develop an awareness of the underpinning theories of quality as applicable to leisure and tourism. It helps to comprehend the various dimensions of service quality along with the associated underpinning theory, facilitating and understanding of service, its characteristics and typology. Suitable for students and researchers, it shows how to evaluate critically the numerous quality management systems and techniques available within the context of the leisure and tourism business environment.
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Service Quality Management in Hospitality, Tourism, and Leisure
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Title: A case for benchmarking customer service quality in tourism and leisure services.
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Empowerment: HR Strategies for Service Excellence: HR strategies for service excellence (Hospitality, Leisure and Tourism)
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'Empowerment: HR strategies for service excellence' shows managers and students the importance of empowerment as part of human resource strategy. It provides a critical perspective of this established vital management technique, identifying factors that will lead to a win: win situation for all concerned.
When successfully incorporated as part of HR strategy, empowerment can:
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'Empowerment: HR strategies for service excellence' uses case studies from companies such as McDonalds, TGI Fridays and Harvester Restaurants to build a picture of empowerment of service employees in context, illustrating how different forms of empowerment are employed and different working arrangements are practiced.
A well-established and proven management technique
Empowerment as a vital part of HR Strategy
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Team Think: 72 Ways to Make Good, Smart, Quick Decision In Any Meeting
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Meetings can be transformed from time-wasters to high-energy productive sessions if organizations are smart enough to apply effective group decision-making skills. Drawing on state-of-the-art techniques used by teams at top companies, the author delivers cutting-edge ideas for: improving productivity; boosting creativity and team spirits; brainstorming; making and implementing decisions; writing statements of purpose and; maximizing the use of video and teleconferencing.
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Organizational Behaviour in Hotels and Restaurants: An International Perspective
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The hospitality sector is one of the largest growing industries in the world. This is reflected in the growing number of academic courses available on the subject. The key element of hospitality management is interaction between the people who work in the industry and the environment in which they work.
Yvonne Guerrier has compiled a state-of-the-art textbook which considers the core elements of organizational behaviour in the hospitality industry with an international perspective. By its very nature, hospitality management is becoming an international topic and as such needs to be studied in this context. The book draws on the available case studies and experiences from around the world in order to develop an understanding of working and living with people from different cultures.
Organizational Behaviour in Hotels and Restaurants will enable you to find the answers to such questions as:
"Why is it a pleasure to work in some organizations and torture to work in others?
"Why is it sometimes difficult to motivate people to work hard?"
"How can one person persuade people to work together as a team?"
What is the best way of designing an organization structure?"
"How can I persuade my boss to listen to my ideas?"
Students studying hospitality management, hotel management or hotel and catering management at degree level will find this book an invaluable guide to the subject. Students studying for degrees in tourism management, leisure management and retail management will also find much in this book which is of relevance and interest to them.
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Whether you specialize in bankruptcy or just happen to represent a creditor, Strategies for Creditors in Bankruptcy Proceedings will give you practical, expert advice on securing your client's rights and achieving the best possible results from the bankruptcy process. LoPucki helps you succeed in this demanding practice area by:
* Emphasizing planning as a means of avoiding problems
* Offering a wide range of effective new strategies when representing any type of creditor
* Giving you the full range of possibilities in Chapter 7, Chapter 11, and Chapter 13 bankruptcies
This invaluable storehouse of practical and tactical guidance has earned unanimous praise for its easy-to-use format, with the material arranged by type of client and type of situation rather than by Code section. Full of practice hints, helpful checklists, and proven strategies, LoPucki's revised handbook can be relied upon to show you how to:
* Freeze debtor's assets
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Strategies for Creditors in Bankruptcy Proceedings.......2004-07-16
This invaluable storehouse of tactical guidance has earned unanimous praise for its practical, expert advice on securing your client's rights and achieving the best possible outcome from the bankruptcy process. Attorneys who are faced with perplexing developments in a case - or are trying to plan ahead and anticipate new developments in a case - can turn with confidence to Strategies for Creditors in Bankruptcy Proceedings to find all the possible solutions to their clients' problems.
Some of the interesting strategies address:
Selling the company in an LBO? Structure the transaction to insulate it from preference avoidance.
Licensing intellectual property from a company? Structure the license to take advantage of special protections in the Bankruptcy Code.
Considering a loan to a financially troubled company? Better dust off your Deprizio waivers.
Mortgagees, take a close look at your security agreement - you may be secured by more than just the debtor's personal residence, and that's not what you want in a chapter 13.
Secured lenders, eliminate the possibility of a later 506(c) claim by settling early with the trustee.
203 North Lasalle prohibited exclusive deals to shareholders - but new ways of avoiding it are being found. Here's how to oppose them.
Watch for shareholder releases in the plan. If you don't object, you may be out of luck - but the right objection can save your cause of action.
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Financial security begins with a conversation . . .
And that’s why Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz has teamed up with her father, internationally respected investing pioneer and bestselling author Charles R. Schwab, to produce this excellent family financial primer. This book will help investors succeed whether the stock market is going up or down, both in the present and in the long term. Throughout the book, the authors stress the importance of having regular and effective conversations about money—with a spouse or partner, young children and teenagers, and aging parents—and offer the perfect roadmap for starting and continuing those conversations, including:
• understanding the basics: stocks, bonds, and mutual funds
• building wealth over time, understanding your tolerance for risk, and developing and maintaining the right investment portfolio
• investing for your children’s future and for your secure retirement
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“A practical book for men and women, young and old ...It’s smartly written, earnest without being preachy, and offers down-to-earth advice on how to forge productive conversations about money between spouses and partners, parents and children, and adult children and aging parents.”—Chicago Tribune
“Most families don’t talk about money. Personal finance ranks with sex and drugs as one of the least-discussed topics and one fraught with emotional baggage....Bottom line: You have to fend for yourself when it comes to money, and the way to do that is to talk about it with parents, spouses, and children....We all have to take care of ourselves financially. This book is a good place to start.”—USA Today
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Excellent Book!.......2006-05-31
This book goes way beyond it's title... it is a great primer on financial planning and investing. In addition, it gives you a lot of ideas on how to open up the dialog with your family about money matters.
The silver is buried in the backyard........2003-07-08
The airline stock information is in your grandfather's wardrobe. The coin collection is behind the Meow Mix on the back porch shelf. Your older sister is going to stab you in the back. Your brother's neurosis may be an act. You're a good kid, but you won't pass "GO." Better make your own money.--Laurel825
A Helpful Book.......2003-02-19
I was always afraid of investing. This book is a great guide. It does a wonderful job of demystifying money issues that always have intimidated and scared me. A friend of mine recommended this book (her book club is reading it). I've read some of it out loud to my husband. We've talked about things we should have discussed years ago. It's an easy read, and a necessary one (at least for me). FIVE STARS ALL THE WAY!!
Disappointing.......2003-02-07
The authors make many good points about the need to have
conversations with your family about money and investing.
However, the book includes far too many personal stories of random people and in particular of the Schwab family.
The information is not particularly interesting or pertinent.
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From the supplier: The winners of the 1993 American Journalism Review 'Best in the Business' reader poll include Ted Koppel for gutsiest television commentator, CNN for best electronic news source, the MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour as best panel news program and news magazine program. Also awarded prizes were satirist Molly Ivins, political cartoonist Jeff MacNelly and sportscaster Bob Costas. The Washington Post won for best investigative reporting and the New York Times for best campaign coverage. Brief interviews with winners are presented.
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Title: Certifications and soft skills equal high pay. (Tech Talk).(Brief Article)
Author: Peter Piazza
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Security Management (Refereed)
Date: July 1, 2002
Publisher: American Society for Industrial Security
Volume: 46
Issue: 7
Page: 43(1)
Article Type: Brief Article
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This digital document is an article from San Diego Business Journal, published by CBJ, L.P. on January 14, 2002. The length of the article is 763 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Cox begins switch to its own internet service. (Tech Talk).(Cox Communications Inc.)(Brief Article)
Author: Brad Graves
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San Diego Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 14, 2002
Publisher: CBJ, L.P.
Volume: 23
Issue: 2
Page: 9(1)
Article Type: Brief Article
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Title: First step to successful investing? Understanding risk.(Ticker Talk)(understanding risk tolerance in investments can pay off in the long run)(Column)
Author: Scott Reed
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Mississippi Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 25, 2005
Publisher: Venture Publications
Volume: 27
Issue: 30
Page: 25(1)
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This digital document is an article from Video Age International, published by TV Trade Media, Inc. on August 1, 1994. The length of the article is 1728 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Interactive TV: the world talks back. (includes article on failed Quizzy venture in Italy) (Info Superhighway)
Author: Ken Carlton
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Video Age International (Magazine/Journal)
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