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Modern financial research suggests that investing success is generally unrelated to investing skill — and therefore that the best way to “win” the investing “game” is not to “play” it at all. This course will examine the “passive investing thesis” through the close reading and discussion of contemporary investing classics alongside a consideration of Tom Wolfe’s The Bonfire of the Vanities and Oliver Stone’s Wall Street. Texts will include: Benjamin Graham’s The Intelligent Investor, Burton Malkiel’s A Random Walk Down Wall Street and William Bernstein’s The Four Pillars of Investing.
Texts
- Graham, The Intelligent Investor (Selections)
- Malkiel, A Random Walk Down Wall Street (Selections)
- Bernstein, The Four Pillars of Investing
- Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
- Lewis, Liar’s Poker
Films
- Passive Investing: The Evidence the Fund Management Industry Would Prefer You Not to See (BRWM, 2012, 54 min, English)
- Wall Street (Stone, 1987, 126 min, English)
TAUGHT: WINTER 2014, WINTER 2015