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Money Changes Everything : How Finance Made Civilization Possible /

"[A] magnificent history of money and finance."--New York Times Book Review" ; Convincingly makes the case that finance is a change-maker of change-makers."--Financial TimesIn the aftermath of recent financial crises, it's easy to see finance as a wrecking ball: something th...

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Autor principal: Goetzmann, William N. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Woodstock, Oxfordshire : Princeton University Press, 2017.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover ; Title ; Copyright ; CONTENTS ; Acknowledgments ; Introduction ; PART I FROM CUNEIFORM TO CLASSICAL CIVILIZATION ; 1 Finance and Writing ; 2 Finance and Urbanism ; 3 Financial Architecture ; 4 Mesopotamian Twilight ; 5 Athenian Finance ; 6 Monetary Revolution
  • 7 Roman Finance PART II THE FINANCIAL LEGACY OF CHINA ; 8 China's First Financial World ; 9 Unity and Bureaucracy ; 10 Financial Divergence ; PART III THE EUROPEAN CRUCIBLE ; 11 The Temple and Finance ; 12 Venice ; 13 Fibonacci and Finance ; 14 Immortal Bonds
  • 15 The Discovery of Chance 16 Efficient Markets ; 17 Europe, Inc. ; 18 Corporations and Exploration ; 19 A Projecting Age ; 20 A Bubble in France ; 21 According to Hoyle ; 22 Securitization and Debt ; PART IV THE EMERGENCE OF GLOBAL MARKETS ; 23 Marx and Markets
  • 24 China's Financiers 25 The Russian Bear ; 26 Keynes to the Rescue ; 27 The New Financial World ; 28 Re-Engineering the Future ; 29 Post-War Theory ; Conclusion ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Illustration Credits ; Index