Article: Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street.

Milhaud, Honegger, Poulence, Auric, Durey, Tailleferre: They were called "Les Six," French composers of the 1920s who decried Romantic pretentiousness and admired the directness of popular songs -- although you might not hear it in their music. Polytonality, you know. Another cabal of revolutionary artistes.

Markowitz, Tobin, Sharpe, Samuelson, Modigliani, Miller: According to Peter L. Bernstein, founder of The Journal of Portfolio Management, this half-dozen avantgarde American academics was at least as revolutionary as that Parisian bunch and -- with the exception of Paul Samuelson, whose economics textbook is widely adopted and despite Nobel Prizes every one ...

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