Kyle Harrison
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Capital Ideas
Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street
- Author
- Peter L. Bernstein
- Published
- 1991
- Pages
- 340
- Recommended
- Once
Why it’s on the list: Peter Bernstein’s history of the improbable origins of modern Wall Street — how academic finance theory made its way into the way money is actually managed.
Where I heard about it
- A Goldman Sachs reading list — on the firm’s recommended reading list (careers site), under Industry Background and Flavor (the list includes it twice), shared by @F_Compounders on X in July 2025: the post.
Connections
- Peter L. Bernstein — author.
- Also by Peter L. Bernstein on the same list: Against the Gods.
- Goldman Sachs Recommended reading list… (tweet) — the list this came from.