History of Finance

In 2004, The American Finance Association Board approved a project to record aspects of the History of Finance. Stephen Buser was appointed Historian with the mission to produce video interviews with important contributors to financial economic knowledge. Links to streaming videos of edited versions of interviews with Harry Markowitz, William Sharpe, Paul Samuelson, Robert Merton, Myron Scholes and Jack Treynor are posted below. Transcripts of the full texts of these interviews are also available below.  Additional interviews with other seminal scholars in the field are planned.The AFA thanks Dimensional Fund Advisors for their generous support of this project

Markowitz Interview

Markowitz Transcript

Sharpe Interview

Sharpe Transcript
 

Samuelson Interview

Merton Interview

Treynor Interview