Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street - Softcover

Bernstein, Peter L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471731749 ISBN 13: 9780471731740

Publisher: Wiley, 2005

Synopsis

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. Bernstein brings to life a variety of brilliant academics who have contributed to modern investment theory over the years: Louis Bachelier, Harry Markowitz, William Sharpe, Fischer Black, Myron Scholes, Robert Merton, Franco Modigliani, and Merton Miller. 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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Richard Brealey London Business School This is a great book...captures marvelously the excitement of the search for new ideas.

From the Back Cover:

CAPITAL IDEAS

"What a fantastic book!"
--John C. Bogle, Founder of The Vanguard Group, Inc.

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. Starting with the French mathematician Louis Bachelier--who wrote about the unpredictability of stock prices in the early 1900s--Bernstein brings to life a variety of brilliant academics who have contributed to modern investment theory over the years:

• 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

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0471731749
• ISBN 13: 9780471731740
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368