The Early History of Modern Financial Economics

Edward E. Williams and John A. Dobelman

Chapter 2 in A Random Walk to Nowhere:How the Professors Caused a Real “Fraud-on-the-Market”, 2020, pp 17-38 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: Over the past 50 years, the late Professor M. C. Findlay (1944–2008) joined one of the authors (Edward E. Williams) to provide a critique of the intellectual path taken by financial economists. The late Professor J. R. Thompson (1938–2017) joined in the task more recently. Some of the fruits of these collaborations are provided in this chapter…

Keywords: Efficient Market Hypothesis; Market Inefficiency; Mathematical Economics; Academic Finance; Real-World Markets; Fraud; Random Walk (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B26 O16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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