Preface : Capital ideas in today's world
A note on usage
Acknowledgments
The behavioral attack
Who could design a brain?
The theoreticians
Paul A. Samuelson : the worldly philosopher
The institutionalists
Robert C. Merton : risk is not an add-on
Andrew Lo : the only part of economics that actually works
Robert Shiller : the people's risk manager
The engineers
Bill Sharpe : it's dangerous to think of risk as a number
Harry Markowitz : you have a little world
Myron Scholes : omega has a nice ring to it
The practitioners
Barclays global investors : it was an evangelical undertaking
The Yale Endowment Fund : uninstitutional behavior
The alpha merry-go-round: we don't see expected returns
Making alpha portable : a more efficient alpha engine
Martin Leibowitz : CAPM in a new suit of clothes
Goldman Sachs: I know the invisible hand is still there
Capital ideas tomorrow
Capital ideas tomorrow.
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Capital ideas evolving by Peter L. Bernstein. ISBN 9780471731733. Published by Wiley in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
