The Origins Of Business Money And Markets

Author : Keith Roberts
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231153260
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origins of Business, Money, and Markets written by Keith Roberts and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knowing and understanding Western business history helps clarify the nature of business throughout the world today, along with the public policies that determine much of its current operating environment. Yet rarely do business historians look further back than the European Middle Ages. As Keith Roberts describes in this book, business, markets, and money as we know them took shape in the ancient Greek, Hellenistic, and Roman civilizations. His detailed history underscores the parallels between early and modern business practice. With its broad consideration of business morality, the nature of wealth, the role of finance, and the development of public institutions that shaped business possibilities, Roberts pioneers an absorbing account of a long neglected history.

Author : Benn Steil
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300156146
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Money, Markets, and Sovereignty written by Benn Steil and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2010 Hayek Book Prize given by the Manhattan Institute "Money, Markets and Sovereignty is a surprisingly easy read, given the complicated issues covered. In it, Mr. Steil and Mr. Hinds consistently challenge today's statist nostrums."—Doug Bandow, The Washington Times In this keenly argued book, Benn Steil and Manuel Hinds offer the most powerful defense of economic liberalism since F. A. Hayek published The Road to Serfdom more than sixty years ago. The authors present a fascinating intellectual history of monetary nationalism from the ancient world to the present and explore why, in its modern incarnation, it represents the single greatest threat to globalization. Steil and Hinds describe the current state of international economic relations as both unusual and precarious. Eras of economic protectionism have historically coincided with monetary nationalism, while eras of liberal trade have been accompanied by a universal monetary standard. But today, the authors show, an unprecedentedly liberal global trade regime operates side by side with the most extreme doctrine of monetary nationalism ever contrived—a situation bound to trigger periodic crises. Steil and Hinds call for a revival of the political and economic thinking that underlay earlier great periods of globalization, thinking that is increasingly under threat by more recent ideas about what sovereignty means.

Author : Renate Pieper
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030238946
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mining, Money and Markets in the Early Modern Atlantic written by Renate Pieper and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume documents recent efforts to track the transformation and trajectory of silver during the early modern period, from its origins in ores located on either side of the Atlantic to its use as currency in the financial centres of continental Europe. As a point of comparison, copper mining and its monetary use in the early modern Atlantic World will also be considered. Contributors rely mainly on economic and economic history methodologies, complemented by geographical and cultural history approaches. The use of novel software applications as tools to explain economic-historical episodes is also detailed.

Author : Jeremy Atack
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139477048
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origins and Development of Financial Markets and Institutions written by Jeremy Atack and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-16 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collectively, mankind has never had it so good despite periodic economic crises of which the current sub-prime crisis is merely the latest example. Much of this success is attributable to the increasing efficiency of the world's financial institutions as finance has proved to be one of the most important causal factors in economic performance. In a series of insightful essays, financial and economic historians examine how financial innovations from the seventeenth century to the present have continually challenged established institutional arrangements, forcing change and adaptation by governments, financial intermediaries, and financial markets. Where these have been successful, wealth creation and growth have followed. When they failed, growth slowed and sometimes economic decline has followed. These essays illustrate the difficulties of co-ordinating financial innovations in order to sustain their benefits for the wider economy, a theme that will be of interest to policy makers as well as economic historians.

Author : David Chambers
Publisher : CFA Institute Research Foundation
ISBN 13 : 1944960163
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Financial Market History: Reflections on the Past for Investors Today written by David Chambers and published by CFA Institute Research Foundation. This book was released on with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 2008 financial crisis, a resurgence of interest in economic and financial history has occurred among investment professionals. This book discusses some of the lessons drawn from the past that may help practitioners when thinking about their portfolios. The book’s editors, David Chambers and Elroy Dimson, are the academic leaders of the Newton Centre for Endowment Asset Management at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom.

Author : Lodewijk Petram
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231537328
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World's First Stock Exchange written by Lodewijk Petram and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This account of the sophisticated financial hub that was 17th-century Amsterdam “does a fine job of bringing history to life” (Library Journal). The launch of the Dutch East India Company in 1602 initiated Amsterdam’s transformation from a regional market town into a dominant financial center. The Company introduced easily transferable shares, and within days buyers had begun to trade them. Soon the public was engaging in a variety of complex transactions, including forwards, futures, options, and bear raids, and by 1680 the techniques deployed in the Amsterdam market were as sophisticated as any we practice today. Lodewijk Petram’s award-winning history demystifies financial instruments by linking today’s products to yesterday’s innovations, tying the market’s operation to the behavior of individuals and the workings of the world around them. Traveling back in time, Petram visits the harbor and other places where merchants met to strike deals. He bears witness to the goings-on at a notary’s office and sits in on the consequential proceedings of a courtroom. He describes in detail the main players, investors, shady characters, speculators, and domestic servants and other ordinary folk, who all played a role in the development of the market and its crises. His history clarifies concerns that investors still struggle with today—such as fraud, the value of information, trust and the place of honor, managing diverging expectations, and balancing risk—and does so in a way that is vivid, relatable, and critical to understanding our contemporary world.

Author : Marc Levinson
Publisher : The Economist
ISBN 13 : 1541742516
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guide to Financial Markets written by Marc Levinson and published by The Economist. This book was released on 2018-07-24 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The revised and updated 7th edition of this highly regarded book brings the reader right up to speed with the latest financial market developments, and provides a clear and incisive guide to a complex world that even those who work in it often find hard to understand. In chapters on the markets that deal with money, foreign exchange, equities, bonds, commodities, financial futures, options and other derivatives, the book examines why these markets exist, how they work, and who trades in them, and gives a run-down of the factors that affect prices and rates. Business history is littered with disasters that occurred because people involved their firms with financial instruments they didn't properly understand. If they had had this book they might have avoided their mistakes. For anyone wishing to understand financial markets, there is no better guide.

Author : Howard Bodenhorn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521669993
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Banking in Antebellum America written by Howard Bodenhorn and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-02-13 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Bodenhorn reveals how America was served by an efficient system of financial intermediaries by the mid-nineteenth century.

Author : Miguel Urquiola
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0674244230
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Markets, Minds, and Money written by Miguel Urquiola and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Free markets made US universities world leaders in research. Economist Miguel Urquiola argues that in the late nineteenth century, entrepreneurial universities saw they could meet the industrializing country's demand for expertise. They moved away from religiously inspired teaching, and market dynamics allowed them to surpass European competitors.

Author : Robert S. Wicks
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501719475
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Money, Markets, and Trade in Early Southeast Asia written by Robert S. Wicks and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This substantial work explores the impact of monetization in premodern Southeast Asia from the third century BCE to the rise of Maleka in the early fifteenth century. The author explores why concepts of money developed unevenly throughout the region. He considers trade policies, price controls, exchange ratios, monopolies, variant standards of value, and the administrative structures required to support such a complex economic innovation.