Rational Myopia by Kent Osband

Kent Osband, Founder of RiskTick LLC, a consultancy tracking financial turbulence. For most of the decade prior he was Managing Director at Fortress Investment Group and chief portfolio strategist of its global macro hedge fund. Dr. Osband graduated Harvard College magna cum laude in History and Science and received a PhD in economics from the University of California at Berkeley. He worked on Soviet and post-Soviet economic reform for the Rand Corporation, the IMF, and the World Bank. He joined Goldman Sachs to build its coverage of eastern European economies and later became chief strategist for emerging debt markets at Credit Suisse First Boston.