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Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street

by Peter L. Bernstein · 1991 · 352 pages

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When the 1974 recession hit Wall Street, investment professionals desperately turned to academia to help regain the value of their clients' holdings. Bernstein shows how Wall Street finally embraced the advences wrought in academic seminars and technical journals tht ultimately transformed the art of investing.

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Subject
businesseconomicshistory
Themes
wealth
Setting
new york
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 352 pages

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