'The Ascent of Market Efficiency' weaves together historical narrative and quantitative bibliometric data to detail the path financial economists took in order to form one of the central theories of financial economics - the influential efficient-market hypothesis - which states that the behaviour of financial markets is unpredictable.

Previously issued in print: 2020.

The Rhetoric of Market Efficiency : How Data Analysis Became Legitimate -- Collaborations and Market Efficiency : The Network of Financial Economics -- Winners and Losers in Financial Economics, or Fama versus Black : How Markets Became Efficient and Equilibrium was Defeated -- How Financial Economics Got Its Science.