Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street Bernstein illuminates the critical role financial markets play in economic development and growth. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon.
However, ultimately, the subject matter is a bit too thin for an entire book, particularly as Bernstein does not particularly much consider the question of to how large a degree the theories are actually applicable to reality (this question is relevant, as the assumptions made in many of the theories are highly suspect). The history of the ideas is well presented as well. Habits That Stick: The Ultimate Guide To Building Powerful Habits That Stick Once a... Richard Brealey London Business School This is a great book...captures marvelously the excitement of the search for new ideas. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 March 2016. The book is well written and the language is clear. For a thoughtful review go no further than Thomas Koetzsch, below.
1-Click ordering is not available for this item. Capital Ideas : The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street Bernstein , Peter L Capital Ideas traces the origins of modern Wall Street, from the pioneering work of early scholars and the development of new theories in risk, valuation, and investment returns, to the actual implementation of these theories in the real world of investment management. "What a fantastic book!"
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and over 8 million other books are available for, Harry Markowitz, who wrote about optimizing the tradeoff between risk and reward, William Sharpe, who shook the pillars of the investment establishment by asserting that the market cannot be beaten, Fischer Black, Myron Scholes, and Robert Merton, who paved the way for the creation of financial derivatives and new ways of controlling risk, Franco Modigliani and Merton Miller, who extolled the central role of arbitrage in determining the value of securities, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. This book is just about a bunch of academics going around and formalizing existing ideas, which is interesting in some respects but rather long and dull in others. The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 February 2010. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 February 2018. Monday, March 1, 1993 A biography book about selected academics and their journey towards acadeic sucess.
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Filled with in-depth insights and timeless advice, "Capital Ideas" reveals how the unique contributions of these talented individuals profoundly changed the practice of investment management as we know it today.
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