Finance

Great first book on Finance.... Should be required reading for all college grads. See also his Bodie's book Essentials of Investments.

there is a few bad review of this book. of course it is not a book for mba students, it is just good if you are in first year at university, easy to understand, and good introduction

Professor Bodie and Merton did devote this book for readers. Reading this book is like having Bodie and Merton sitting in front you, smiling and answering every naive question with patience. I am lucky to have read the preliminary edition. And I am eager to see the first edition of it ASAP. This is a must for everyone who is interested in finance.

"Have you seen the new Finance textbook?" The query making the rounds of business schools these days is uttered with such reverence that the question might as well be: "Have you seen the light?" Robert Merton, who shared last year's Nobel prize for economics, and Zvi Bodie, a professor at Boston University's business school, have penned what is being hailed as the definitive book in the field of finance. "This textbook will change the way finance is taught at business schools around the world," says James Angel, professor at Georgetown University's school of business. The eminent economist Paul Samuelson, who taught both authors when they were students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and wrote the foreword to the book, calls it an "innovative work that sets a new pattern of excellence"...

Robert Merton is one of the sharpest and clearest minded financial economists we have. This book is bound to be great. :-)