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Capital ideas the improbable origins of modern Wall Street

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  • "Origines improbables du Wall Street moderne"
  • "Modern Wall Street"
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  • "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 h."
  • "When the recession of 1974 hit Wall Street, the investments profession desperately turned to the theories of a small and unlikely group of academics for guidance in finding a way to regain the value of their clients' holdings. Some of these scholars had begun to study stock prices merely as an expedient way to test the properties of large numbers, but inadvertently, they laid the intellectual foundation for a revolution in commerce. Peter L. Bernstein shows how Wall Street first fought, and then embraced, the advances wrought in the academic seminars and technical journals that ultimately transformed the art of investing."

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  • "Capital ideas the improbable origins of modern wall street"
  • "Capital ideas : the improbable origins of modern wall street"
  • "Des idees capitales : les origines improbables du Wall Street moderne /Peter L. Bernstein"
  • "Capital Ideas The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street"
  • "Des idées capitales : les origines improbables du Wall Street moderne"
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  • "Capital ideas : the improbable origins of modern Wall Street"
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  • "Des Idées capitales : les origines improbables du Wall Street moderne"

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