Introduction: It had been working so exceptionally well
Early days: Irving Fisher loses his briefcase, and then his fortune ; A random walk from Fred Macaulay to Holbrook Working
The rise of the rational market: Harry Markowitz brings statistical man to the stock market ; A random walk from Paul Samuelson to Paul Samuelson ; Modigliani and Miller arrive at a simplifying assumption ; Gene Fama makes the best proposition in economics
The conquest of Wall Street: Jack Bogle takes on the performance cult (and wins) ; Fischer Black chooses to focus on the probably ; Michael Jensen gets corporations to obey the market
The challenge: Dick Thaler gives economic man a personality ; Bob Shiller points out the most remarkable error ; Beating the market with Warren Buffett and Ed Thorp ; Alan Greenspan stops a random plunge down Wall Street
The fall: Andrei Shleifer moves beyond rabbi economics ; Mike Jensen changes his mind about the corporation ; Gene Fama and Dick Thaler knock each other out
The anatomy of a financial crisis.
