
Peter L. Bernstein Classics Collection
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- Cover
- Title
- Contents
- Copyright
- Introducing Wiley Investment Classics
- Publisher's Note
- Foreword
- Capital Ideas
- Contents
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Revolution in the Wealth of Nations
- Part I: Setting the Scene
- Chapter 1: Are Stock Prices Predictable?
- Part II: The Whole and the Parts
- Chapter 2: Fourteen Pages to Fame
- Chapter 3: The Interior Decorator Fallacy
- Chapter 4: The Most Important Single Influence
- Part III: The Demon of Chance
- Chapter 5: Illusions, Molecules, and Trends
- Chapter 6: Anticipating Prices Properly
- Chapter 7: The Search for High P.Q.
- Part IV: What Are Stocks Worth?
- Chapter 8: The Best at the Price
- Chapter 9: The Bombshell Assertions
- Chapter 10: Risky Business
- Chapter 11: The Universal Financial Device
- Part V: From Gown to Town
- Chapter 12: The Constellation
- Chapter 13: The Accountant for Risk
- Chapter 14: The Ultimate Invention
- Part VI: The Future
- Chapter 15: The View from the Top of the Tower
- Notes
- Bibliography and Other Sources
- Name Index
- Subject Index
- Against The Gods
- Contents
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- To 1200: Beginnings
- Chapter 1: The Winds of the Greeks and the Role of the Dice
- Chapter 2: As Easy as I, II, III
- 1200-1700: A Thousand Outstanding Facts
- Chapter 3: The Renaissance Gambler
- Chapter 4: The French Connection
- Chapter 5: The Remarkable Notions of the Remarkable Notions Man
- 1700-1900: Measurement Unlimited
- Chapter 6: Considering the Nature of Man
- Chapter 7: The Search for Moral Certainty
- Chapter 8: The Supreme Law of Unreason
- Chapter 9: The Man with the Sprained Brain
- Chapter 10: Peapods and Perils
- Chapter 11: The Fabric of Felicity
- 1900-1960: Clouds of Vagueness and The Demand for Precision
- Chapter 12: The Measure of Our Ignorance
- Chapter 13: The Radically Distinct Notion
- Chapter 14: The Man Who Counted Everything Except Calories
- Chapter 15: The Strange Case of the Anonymous Stockbroker
- Degrees of Belief: Exploring Uncertainty
- Chapter 16: The Failure of Invariance
- Chapter 17: The Theory Police
- Chapter 18: The Fantastic System of Side Bets
- Chapter 19: Awaiting the Wildness
- Bibliography
- Name Index
- Subject Index
- The Power of Gold
- Contents
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- A Metal For All Seasons
- Chapter 1: Get Gold at All Hazards
- Chapter 2: Midas's Wish and the Creatures of Pure Chance
- Chapter 3: Darius's Bathtub and the Cackling of the Geese
- Chapter 4: The Symbol and the Faith
- Chapter 5: Gold, Salt, and the Blessed Town
- Chapter 6: The Legacy of Eoba, Babba, and Udd
- Chapter 7: The Great Chain Reaction
- Chapter 8: The Disintegrating Age and the Kings' Ransoms
- Chapter 9: The Sacred Thirst
- The Path to Triumph
- Chapter 10: The Fatal Poison and Private Money
- Chapter 11: The Asian Necropolis and Hien Tsung's Inadvertent Innovation
- Chapter 12: The Great Recoinage and the Last of the Magicians
- Chapter 13: The True Doctrine and the Great Evil
- Chapter 14: The New Mistress and the Cursed Discovery
- Chapter 15: The Badge of Honor
- Chapter 16: The Most Stupendous Conspiracy and the Endless Chain
- The Descent From Glory
- Chapter 17: The Norman Conquest
- Chapter 18: The End of the Epoch
- Chapter 19: The Transcending Value
- Chapter 20: World War Eight and the Thirty Ounces of Gold
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
- Capital Ideas Evolving
- Books by Peter L. Bernstein
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Preface
- A Note on Usage
- PART I - THE BEHAVIORAL ATTACK
- Chapter 1 - Who Could Design a Brain ...
- Chapter 2 - The Strange Paradox of Behavioral Finance
- PART II - THE THEORETICIANS
- Chapter 3 - Paul A. Samuelson
- THE INSTITUTIONALISTS
- Chapter 4 - Robert C. Merton
- Chapter 5 - Andrew Lo
- Chapter 6 - Robert Shiller
- THE ENGINEERS
- Chapter 7 - Bill Sharpe
- Chapter 8 - Harry Markowitz
- Chapter 9 - Myron Scholes
- PART III - THE PRACTITIONERS
- Chapter 10 - Barclays Global Investors
- Chapter 11 - The Yale Endowment Fund
- Chapter 12 - CAPM II: The Great Alpha Dream Machine
- Chapter 13 - Making Alpha Portable
- Chapter 14 - Martin Leibowitz
- Chapter 15 - Goldman Sachs Asset Management
- PART IV - CAPITAL IDEAS TOMORROW
- Chapter 16 - Nothing Stands Still
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index
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