Updates

  1. Person pages list letters, writing, profiles and links as sortable tables with filters, and show each person's companies as links; Fund letters show each letter's description in its own column.
  2. Experts show a checked job title and a short description of each person; 30 more people have photographs.
  3. Every company, fund, university and publication the experts work for has a page listing the people there.
  4. Fund letters show each letter's thesis and filter by it; 225 person pages list the essays, columns and newsletter issues the person wrote.
  5. Person pages list every essay and newsletter issue a person wrote, and their own books as a table in List view.
  6. Recommends shows the five largest kinds of book and the rest under More; browse pictures load sooner.
  7. Podcasts and talks link the original episode, filter by Audio and video or Press, and list each publisher once.
  8. Pages are wider, Recommends has List and Grid, and a filter clicked again turns off.
  9. Book cards sit in a ruled grid with Open Library and Goodreads links and each book's one-line note.
  10. Funds is now Investors; each investor's styles are buttons that filter the table.
  11. Podcasts and talks on a person's page filter by year and publisher and show as a list or a grid of pictures.
  12. Quotes show only people's own words: 472 summaries written by list sites are gone.
  13. Country pages open from Browse again, and every link on the shelf lands on a page.
  14. Subject and person pages show their sections as tabs, and each book appears once on a person's page.
  15. Book cards show the quote, who said it and the source; grids show five cards to a row.
  16. On a phone, a menu holds the sections, search, Updates, Feedback and dark mode.
  17. Feedback takes a screenshot of the page with no browser prompt, opens a screenshot full size when you click it, and clears itself once sent.
  18. Book cards are centred, search names the topic each book sits in, and any text cut short shows whole on hover.
  19. Search groups its results by kind: people, companies, geographies, subjects, topics, books, funds, fund letters and papers.
  20. The Books table lists who recommended each book by name, and the browser tab names the section you are in.
  21. Feedback can take a screenshot of the page, or one you paste or choose, and opens in the corner beside Updates.
  22. Each rail button reopens its section where you left it, and Browse, Table and People show on every book and subject page.
  23. Filters grey out choices that hold nothing instead of hiding them, and Books › People filters by authors or recommenders.
  24. Feedback takes a subject line and up to three screenshots.
  25. Biographies are grouped by the person they are about: 41 new pages, from Abraham Lincoln to Lee Kuan Yew.
  26. Sport splits into 23 sports, and Religion into one topic per faith.
  27. Book lists show as cards: the cover, one recommendation quote and every recommender by name.
  28. Seventeen subjects that had two or three pages under different names now have one page each.
  29. Every page lists its Experts as authors and recommenders, with a link to them on the Experts tab.
  30. Economics, Financial history, Financial panics and Accounting are subjects of their own, with one page per financial crisis.
  31. Book, person and subject pages open inside the app, so the tabs stay in view.
  32. 996 more book covers, and photographs or logos for 227 more people and companies.
  33. Books › Browse shows every subject as cards, and the rail holds Fund letters, Papers, Experts, Books and Funds.
  34. Every topic over 150 books splits into narrower topics, each with a page of its own.

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Peter L. Bernstein

T1InvestorsJournalistsFinancial history and ideas

Financial historian, economist and educator who became one of the best-known popularisers of academic finance, including the efficient-market hypothesis. Died in 2009.

Peter L. Bernstein Inc.The Journal of Portfolio Management

Against the Gods and Capital Ideas are the standard accounts of risk and of modern finance theory, read across the whole field.

8 books of their own · 5 articles · 1 book they recommend

Books 8Recommends 1Writing 5Profiles 3Links 1

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  1. A Primer on Money, Banking, and Gold1965
  2. Economist on Wall Street1970
  3. Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street1992
A Primer on Money, Banking, and GoldA Primer on Money, Banking, and Gold
T4 A Primer on Money, Banking, and Gold
Peter L. Bernstein · 1965
Open LibraryGoodreads
Economist on Wall StreetEconomist on Wall Street
T4 Economist on Wall Street
Peter L. Bernstein · 1970
Open LibraryGoodreads
Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of ModCapital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street
T1 Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street
Peter L. Bernstein · 1992
Open LibraryGoodreads

How Markowitz, Sharpe, Fama, Black and Scholes built the theory of modern finance.

Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of RiAgainst the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk
T1 Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk
Peter L. Bernstein · 1996
Open LibraryGoodreads

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

The Power of Gold: The History of an ObsessiThe Power of Gold: The History of an Obsession
T1 The Power of Gold: The History of an Obsession
Peter L. Bernstein · 2000
Open LibraryGoodreads

Gold from ancient Egypt and Lydian coins to the end of Bretton Woods.

Wedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal and thWedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation
T4 Wedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation
Peter L. Bernstein · 2005
Open LibraryGoodreads
Capital Ideas EvolvingCapital Ideas Evolving
T4 Capital Ideas Evolving
Peter L. Bernstein · 2007
Open LibraryGoodreads
Investment ManagementInvestment Management
T4 Investment Management
Aswath Damodaran, Peter L. Bernstein · 1998
Open LibraryGoodreads

Co-edited volume with Peter L. Bernstein.

A Primer on Money, Banking, and Gold–1965T4–
Economist on Wall Street–1970T4–
Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall StreetHow Markowitz, Sharpe, Fama, Black and Scholes built the theory of modern finance.1992T1–
Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of RiskHow people learned to measure risk, from early probability to portfolio theory.1996T1Charles de Vaulx, Jim Collins, Marc Andreessen and 7 others
The Power of Gold: The History of an ObsessionGold from ancient Egypt and Lydian coins to the end of Bretton Woods.2000T1–
Wedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation–2005–
Capital Ideas Evolving–2007T4–
Investment ManagementCo-edited volume with Peter L. Bernstein.1998–

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