Capital ideas evolving

Includes bibliographical references (p. 252-259) and index.

The behavioral attack -- Who could design a brain-- -- The strange paradox of behavioral finance : "neoclassical theory is a theory of sharks" -- The theoreticians -- Paul A. Samuelson : the worldly philosopher -- The institutionalists -- Robert C. Merton : "risk is not an add-on" -- Andrew Lo : "the only part of economics that really works" -- Robert Shiller : the people's risk manager -- The engineers -- Bill Sharpe : "it's dangerous to think of risk as a number" -- Harry Markowitz : "you have a little world" -- Myron Scholes : "omega has a nice ring to it" -- The practitioners -- Barclays Global Investors : "it was an evangelical undertaking" -- The Yale Endowment Fund : uninstitutional behavior -- CAPM II : the great alpha dream machine : we don't see expected returns -- Making alpha portable : "that's become the new mantra" -- Martin Leibowitz : CAPM in a new suit of clothes -- Goldman Sachs asset management : "I know the invisible hand is still there" -- Capital ideas tomorrow -- Nothing stands still.