Prof. Burton G. Malkiel

Bendheim Center for Finance, Princeton University
Author, "A Random Walk Down Wall Street"

Burton Malkiel is an American economist and writer, most famous for his classic finance book A Random Walk Down Wall Street (now in its 9th edition, 2008). He is a leading proponent of the efficient market hypothesis, which contends that prices of publicly traded assets reflect all publicly available information.

Education:
Harvard University, BA, MBA; Princeton, PhD.

Notable:
Malkiel is a professor of economics and is a two-time chairman of the economics department at Princeton University. He served as a member of the Council of Economic Advisers (1975-1977), president of the American Finance Association (1978), and dean of the Yale School of Management (1981-1988). He has also written influential articles for the Journal of Finance (1977).

Further Reading: A Random Walk Down Wall Street, Malkiel, Burton