Capital Ideas
Subtitle: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street
Publisher: Free Press
Published: December 16, 1991
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780029030110
Subjects: Investment Finance; Business / Economics / Finance; Business/Economics; Investments & Securities - General; Business & Economics / General; Investment & securities; USA; c 1970 to c 1980; c 1980 to c 1990; c 1990 to c 2000; Finance; Wall Street (New York, N.Y.)
First sentence: Paul Samuelson, economist and Nobel laureate, once remarked that it is not easy to get rich in Las Vegas, at Churchill Downs, or at the local Merrill Lynch office.