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Capital ideas evolving / Peter L. Bernstein.
| Author/creator | Bernstein, Peter L. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, ©2007. |
| Description | xxii, 282 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents only |
| Subjects |
| Contents | The behavioral attack -- Who could design a brain-- -- The strange paradox of behavioral finance : "neoclassical theory is a theory of sharks" -- 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 really 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 -- CAPM II : the great alpha dream machine : we don't see expected returns -- Making alpha portable : "that's become the new mantra" -- Martin Leibowitz : CAPM in a new suit of clothes -- Goldman Sachs asset management : "I know the invisible hand is still there" -- Capital ideas tomorrow -- Nothing stands still. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 252-259) and index. |
| LCCN | 2006102237 |
| ISBN | 9780471731733 (cloth) |
| ISBN | 0471731730 (cloth) |