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    <body><![CDATA[While not what I would call exciting, this was interesting none the less.<br/><br/>&quot;Capital Ideas&quot; is a history of the people and papers which contributed to modern economic and financial theory. It's interesting to note that many things which everyone seems to accept as fact today with ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50829522">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Good account of the origins of modern investment theory and analysis, as it came out of the Chicago School.  I'd be mroe curious to hear Bernstein's reaction to the current economic crisis and whether the fundamental assumptions of the Efficient Market Hypothesis are inherently flawed.  It's a shame...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73188552">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[“Capital Ideas” The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street is considered a worldwide guide to modern investment theories and practices.   Capital Ideas Evolving  is a follow-up to this work &amp; was published in May 2007.  This is essential reading for those that want to understand modern investm...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46556210">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A good -- if ideologically uncritical -- history of the theories and theoreticians of modern finance, including the influence of the Chicago school.  This is a book written by someone who believes(d?) in the system, so one shouldn't expect questions of human impact or ideology.  It's all about the n...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53911514">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[good book about the history of financial modelling. gives some insights into particular model conceptions, e.g., Black and Scholes. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Story of how academic thought began to infiltrate wall-street with their washington-mathmatatatics... Finance 101 all over again.]]></body>
    
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