Most of us are in the stock market, but few of us understand how it really works. This book explains the hidden dynamics of Wall Street, and its message is urgent and disturbing.

As stock prices and investor confidence have collapsed in the wake of Enron, WorldCom, and the dot-com crash, people want to know how this happened and how to make sense of the uncertain times to come.

Into the breach comes one of Wall Street's legendary investors, Leon Levy, to explain why the market so often confounds us, and why those who ought to understand it tend to get chewed up and spat out. Levy, who pioneered many of the innovations and investment instruments that we now take for granted, has prospered in every market for the past fifty years, particularly in today's bear market. In The Mind of Wall Street he recounts stories of his successes and failures to illustrate how investor psychology and willful self-deception so often play critical roles in the process. Like his peers George Soros and Warren Buffett, Levy takes a long and broad view of the rhythms of the markets and the economy. He also offers a provocative analysis of the spectacular Internet bubble, showing that the market has not yet completely recovered from its bout of "irrational exuberance."

The Mind of Wall Street is essential reading for all of us, whether we are active traders or simply modest contributors to our 401(k) plans, as volatile and unnerving markets come to define so much of our net worth.

裏昂·利維（Leon Levy），當代最重要的投資大師之一，與巴菲特齊名的傳奇人物。1948年開始在華爾街工作，三年內成為奧本海默公司最年輕的閤夥人。憑藉卓有成效的投資工作，他在半個世紀之內都是華爾街重要的指標人物，參與創辦瞭奧本海默基金公司和奧德賽閤夥人公司。其中奧本海默基金公司已然成為華爾街最成功的基金公司之一。此外，他還是巴德學院的利維經濟學研究協會的主席和創立者，普林斯頓大學的高級研究協會（Institute for Advanced Study）的主席。

尤金·林登（Eugene Linden），《時代》周刊撰稿人，已齣版7部著作，現居紐約。

蕭達，河北大學畢業。譯有《大處著眼：社會生活演化如何塑造人類心智》等圖書。