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Founder and President of Peter L. Bernstein, Inc., which he established in 1973 as economic consultants to institutional investors and corporations around the world.

In 1951, after teaching economics at Williams College and a five-year stint in commercial banking, Peter became Chief Executive of a nationally–known investment counsel firm, where he personally managed billions of dollars of individual and institutional portfolios. The assets under management at the firm had grown more than tenfold by the time he resigned in 1973 to launch Peter L. Bernstein, Inc.

Peter was the first Editor of The Journal of Portfolio Management in 1974, a widely-read scholarly journal for investment managers and academics in the field of finance and investments...more

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	Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk 3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 2,732 ratings — published 1996 — 10 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Power of Gold: The History of an Obsession 3.63 of 5 stars 3.63 avg rating — 179 ratings — published 2000 — 22 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street 3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 141 ratings — published 1991 — 9 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation 3.59 of 5 stars 3.59 avg rating — 149 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Capital Ideas Evolving 3.62 of 5 stars 3.62 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2007 — 8 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Primer on Money, Banking, and Gold (Peter L. Bernstein's Finance Classics) by Peter L. Bernstein, Paul A. Volcker (Foreword by) 4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 1964 — 11 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Peter L. Bernstein Classics: Capital Ideas / Against the Gods / The Power of Gold 4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Economist on Wall Street: Notes on the Sanctity of Gold, the Value of Money, the Security of Investments, and Other Delusions by Peter L. Bernstein, Arthur Levitt Jr. (Foreword by) 3.4 of 5 stars 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1970 — 7 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Price of Prosperity: A Realistic Appraisal of the Future of Our National Economy 2.75 of 5 stars 2.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1961 — 9 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Portable MBA in Investment 3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1995	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The information you have is not the information you want. The information you want is not the information you need. The information you need is not the information you can obtain. The information you can obtain costs more than you want to pay”
― Peter L. Bernstein, Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk

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“The word 'risk' derives from the early Italian risicare, which means 'to dare'. In this sense, risk is a choice rather than a fate. The actions we dare to take, which depend on how free we are to make choices, are what the story of risk is all about. And that story helps define what it means to be a human being.”
― Peter L. Bernstein, Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk

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“Our lives teem with numbers, but we sometimes forget that numberss are only tools. They have no soul; they may indeed become fetishes.”
― Peter L. Bernstein, Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk

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