Peter Lewyn Bernstein was an American financial historian, economist and educator whose evangelizing of the efficient-market hypothesis to the public made him one of the country's best known popularizers of academic finance. Wikipedia
Born: January 22, 1919, New York, NY
Died: June 5, 2009 (age 90 years), New York, NY
Books
Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk
1996
Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street
1991
The Power of Gold: The History of an Obsession
2000
Capital Ideas Evolving
2007
Wedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation
2005
A Primer on Money, Banking, and Gold
1965