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...
Autor principal: | |
---|---|
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Woodstock, Oxfordshire :
Princeton University Press,
2017.
|
Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
|
Temas: | |
Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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