"Sidney had a great historical perspective, not merely in financial matters, but also when it came to social and political developments. ...Sidney wrote with great clarity. He could close the door to his office and emerge a few hours later with a 10-page memo... that demanded little editing. I later came to appreciate his great historical sensibilities when he asked me to review and edit a draft of a book he had just completed entitled A History of Interest Rates, which he described as covering 40 centuries and 40 nations. ...Like many good writers, Sidney knew that I would spot more grammatical errors and other problems by reading the book aloud. Years later, when I decided to fund a directorship at the Salomon Center and NYU's Stern School of Business, I was eager and gratified to endow it in Sidney's name."
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A History of Interest Rates
A History of Interest Rates, by Harvard graduate, senior partner, and financial analyst Sidney Homer, was published in 1963, copyright Rutgers University Press. Quotes below, unless otherwise noted, are from the fourth edition, revised by Professor , and published in 2005, by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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