The making of modern corporate finance : a history of the ideas and how they help build the wealth of nations

"This book will show how the operation of U.S. financial markets, including the "market for corporate control," worked to restore the productivity and value of U.S. companies in the 1980s, and have continued to do so since then. In doing so, by bringing increased efficiency and value creation, modern corporate finance has contributed to social goods such as efforts to clean up industrial waste, lift people out of poverty, and combat climate change. The authors explore how this system was built and functions by analyzing financial theory and practice as well as the people behind them, from Merton Miller and the Chicago School theory of value to Stewart Myers' theories of capital structure and budgeting."