The World's First Stock Exchange / / Lodewijk Petram.
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 c...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
Year of Publication: | 2014 |
Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 1. A World-Famous Book
- 2. A New Company
- 3. Early Share Trading
- 4. Angry Shareholders
- 5. Fraud
- 6. The First Boom
- 7. Jewish Traders
- 8. Information
- 9. Trading Clubs
- 10. Speculation
- 11. Crisis
- 12. The World-Famous Book Again
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments and Overview of Literature and Sources
- Notes
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index