Roger Alcaly, who formerly taught economics at Columbia University, is a principal of Mount Lucas Management Corporation, an investment firm in Princeton, New Jersey. (October 1999)
October 7, 1999: He's Got the Whole World in His Hands
Inflation, Unemployment, and Monetary Policy by Robert M. Solow, by John B. Taylor. The Alvin Hansen Symposium on Public Policy, edited and with an introduction by Benjamin M. Friedman
Central Banking in Theory and Practice by Alan S. Blinder
June 25, 1998: How to Think About the Stock Market
Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Peter L. Bernstein
It Was a Very Good Year: Extraordinary Moments in Stock Market History by Martin S. Fridson
Security Analysis: The Classic 1934 Edition by Benjamin Graham, by David Dodd
A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton G. Malkiel. sixth edition
What Works on Wall Street by James P. O'Shaughnessy. revised edition
Stocks for the Long Run: The Definitive Guide to Financial Market Returns and Long-Term Investment Strategies by Jeremy J. Siegel
Advances in Behavioral Finance edited by Richard H. Thaler
Securities Markets in the 1980s, Volume I: The New Regime, 1979-1984 by Barrie A. Wigmore
The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham, with introduction and appendix by Warren Buffett. fourth revised edition
April 10, 1997: Reinventing the Corporation
Ownership and Control: Rethinking Corporate Governance for the Twenty-First Century by Margaret M. Blair
Reinventing the Workplace: How Business and Employees Can Both Win by David I. Levine
Friendly Takeover: How an Employee Buyout Saved a Steel Town by James B. Lieber
Fat and Mean: The Corporate Squeeze of Working Americans and the Myth of Managerial "Downsizing" by David M. Gordon
Strong Managers, Weak Owners: The Political Roots of American Corporate Finance by Mark J. Roe
Profit Sharing: Does it Make a Difference? by Douglas L. Kruse
May 26, 1994: The Golden Age of Junk
Highly Confident: The True Story of the Crime and Punishment of Michael Milken by Jesse Kornbluth
A License to Steal: The Untold Story of Michael Milken and the Conspiracy to Bilk the Nation by Benjamin J. Stein
The First Junk Bond: A Story of Corporate Boom and Bust by Harlan Platt
Money of the Mind: Borrowing and Lending in America from the Civil War to Michael Milken by James Grant
King Icahn: The Biography of a Renegade Capitalist by Mark Stevens
Den of Thieves by James B. Stewart
Nightmare on Wall Street: Salomon Brothers and the Corruption of the Marketplace by Martin Mayer
High Yield Bonds: Issues Concerning Thrift Investments in High Yield Bonds, 3/2/89, GGD-89-48 General Accounting Office
The Predators' Ball: The Inside Story of Drexel Burnham and the Rise of the Junk-Bond Raiders by Connie Bruck
September 24, 1987: Junk-Bond Finance (letter)