Edgar Lawrence Smith, was an economist, investment manager and author of the influential book "Common Stocks as Long Term Investments", which promoted the then-surprising idea that Stocks excel bonds in long-Term yield.
While there, he later recounted in his Harvard class\'s 50th reunion yearbook, "I tried to write a pamphlet on why bonds were.
He worked in banking and other financial endeavors in the years after college, then signed as an adviser to the brokerage firm Low, Dixon & Company.
Edgar Lawrence Smith, was an economist, investment manager and author of the influential book "Common Stocks as Long Term Investments", which promoted the then-surprising idea that Stocks excel bonds in long-Term yield