Burton G. Malkiel is the Chemical Bank Chairman’s Professor of Economics Emeritus at Princeton University. He is a former member of the president’s Council of Economic Advisers and dean of the Yale School of Management. He resides in New Jersey.
Talk to 10 money experts and you're likely to hear 10 recommendations for Burton Malkiel's classic investing book. -- Wall Street Journal If one of your New Year's resolutions is to improve your personal finances, here's a suggestion: Instead of picking up one of the scores of new works flooding into bookstores, reread an old one: A Random Walk Down Wall Street. -- New York Times A Random Walk has set thousands of investors on a straight path since it was first published in 1973. Even if you read the book then or more recently, a refresher course is probably in order.... A lucid mix of the theoretical and the pragmatic. -- Chicago Tribune Do you want to do well in the stock market? Here's the best advice. Scrape together a few bucks and buy Burton Malkiel's book. Then take what's left and put it in an index fund. -- Los Angeles Times Not more than half a dozen really good books about investing have been written in the past fifty years. This one may well belong in the classics category. -- Forbes