INDEX
A
abaci schools, 26
actuaries, 34, 49, 61, 141, 177
adverse selection, 67
age, and human capital, 111
aging, and mortality, 49
Al-Kwarizimi, Muhammed, 19
Alexandrov, Pavel Sergeyich, 173
Allen, Robert, 96
Alliance Assurance Company, 52
American College, 132
American Economics Association, 95, 123
American Society of Actuaries (SoA), 141
see also Halley's equation; pensions and adverse selection, 67
for de-accumulation of wealth, 146
French treasury, 54
and group pricing, 68
proper pricing and valuation, 54
annuity factor tables, 66
Armstrong, William, 126
Aryabhatiya, 175
asset allocation equation. See Samuelson's equation
Astronomical Society, 52
B
baby boomers, 2
Bailey, Francis, 141
Becker, Gary, 110
Bernstein, Peter, 177
Bismarck, Otto von, 6
Black, Fischer, 177
Black Thursday, 99
bubble tendencies, 98
buy-term-and-invest-the-difference (BTID) philosophy, 143–144
C
cafeteria Keynesian, 122
calculus, 159
capital asset pricing model (CAPM) equation, 177
Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street (Bernstein), 177
capital market, 85
causes of death, 49
see also Gompertz ...
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