Classics (Vertin and Ellis)
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Classics (Vertin and Ellis)
| Full title | Classics: The Most Interesting Ideas and Concepts from the Literature of Investing |
|---|---|
| Author | James R. Vertin and Charles D. Ellis |
| Published | 1989 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | An anthology of the investment literature — excerpts, essays, letters and speeches from the people who built the field, with commentary by Charles D. Ellis and James R. Vertin — on the premise that most of what matters in investing was already written down well somewhere, and the useful exercise is reading the originals rather than the summaries. |
Classics (Vertin and Ellis)
Where I heard about it
- Li Lu — on Li Lu’s Recommended Book List, entry 15 of the section on Value Investing, Finance, and Capitalism, where his reading lineage points to these anthologies for the primary literature itself.
About this edition
A second volume, Classics II: Another Investor’s Anthology, followed in 1991 and is the next entry on Li Lu’s list.
Connections
- Li Lu’s Recommended Book List — the list this came from.
- Li Lu — the Himalaya Capital founder who assembled it.
- Classics II — Another Investor’s Anthology — the 1991 second volume, entry 16 on the same list.
- The Intelligent Investor — the canonical primary text the anthology draws on.
- Money Masters of Our Time — John Train’s survey, the entry immediately before this one on the list.
- Value Investing — the tradition being anthologised.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.