Roger E. Alcaly | The New York Review of Books

The Man Who Knew Better

Sebastian Mallaby’s ‘The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan’

The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan

by Sebastian Mallaby

February 23, 2017 issue

Curb the Banks!

The case for stricter capital requirements

The Bankers’ New Clothes: What’s Wrong with Banking and What to Do About It

by Anat Admati and Martin Hellwig

June 5, 2014 issue

How the Fed Failed

November 25, 2010 issue

How They Killed the Economy

Getting Off Track: How Government Actions and Interventions Caused, Prolonged, and Worsened the Financial Crisis

by John B. Taylor

The Fundamental Principles of Financial Regulation

by Markus Brunnermeier, Andrew Crockett, Charles Goodhart, Avinash D. Persaud, and Hyun Shin

March 25, 2010 issue

He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands

Inflation, Unemployment, and Monetary Policy

by Robert M. Solow and 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

October 7, 1999 issue

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 and 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

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June 25, 1998 issue

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

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April 10, 1997 issue

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

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May 26, 1994 issue

Junk-Bond Finance

September 24, 1987 issue