The origins of value : the financial innovations that created modern capital markets / edited by William N. Goetzmann and K. Geert Rouwenhorst.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Goetzmann, William N.

Rouwenhorst, K. Geert.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Finance--History.

Finance.

History.

Money--History.

Money.

Value--History.

Value.

Capital market--History.

Capital market.

Speculation--History.

Speculation.

Physical Description:

xii, 404 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

Contents:

The invention of interest : Sumerian loans / Marc van de Mieroop

Roman shares / Ulrike Malmendier

How business was conducted on the Chinese silk road during the Tang Dynasty, 618-907. Part 1. The resolution of an international dispute on the silk road ca. 670 / Valerie Hansen ; Part II. Records from a seventh-century pawnshop in China / Valerie Hansen and Ana Mata-Fink

The origins of paper money in China / Richard von Glahn

Paying in paper : a government voucher from the southern Song / William N. Goetzmann and Elisabeth Köll

From tallies and chirographs to Franklin's printing press at Passy / William N. Goetzmann and Laura Williams

Fibonacci and the financial revolution / William N. Goetzmann

Bonds and governement debt in Italian city-states, 1250-1650 / Luciano Pezzolo

Venture shares of the Dutch East India Company / Larry Neal

Perpetutiies in the stream of history : a paying instrument form the golden age of Dutch finance / William N. Goetzmann and K. Geert Rouwenhorst

Amsterdam as the cradle of modern futures trading and options trading, 1550-1650 / Oscar Gelderblom and Joost Jonker

Annuities in early modern Europe / James M. Poterba

John Law : innovating theorist and policymaker / Antoin E. Murphy

The invention of inflation-indexed bonds in early America / Robert J. Shiller

The origins of mutual funds / K. Geert Rouwenhorst

Transatlantic paper and the emergence of the American capital market / Ned W. Downing

The origins of the New York stock exchange / Richard Sylla

The first "Eurobonds" : the Rothschilds and the financing of the Holy Alliance, 1818-1822 / Niall Ferguson

German debt in the 20th century / Timothy W. Guinnana

King Leopold's bonds / Robert Harms.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-394) and index.

ISBN:

0195175719

OCLC:

57579411

Publisher Number:

9780195175714