
Founder, Peter L. Bernstein Inc.; founding editor of The Journal of Portfolio Management; economist and financial historian (1919-2009)
Against the Gods and Capital Ideas are the standard accounts of risk and of modern finance theory, read across the whole field.
Chosen by shared topics, the entries that hold them, and the people who recommended both.
Gold from ancient Egypt and Lydian coins to the end of Bretton Woods.
How people learned to measure risk, from early probability to portfolio theory.
“I think some of the books that are a must would be Peter Bernstein's book about risk, Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk.” — Charles de Vaulx
Source: De Vaulx naming Bernstein's book a must-read on risk
Recommended by: Charles de Vaulx, Jim Collins and 8 others
How Markowitz, Sharpe, Fama, Black and Scholes built the theory of modern finance.
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