Money Changes Everything : : How Finance Made Civilization Possible / / William N. Goetzmann.
"[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 that...
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- 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
- Afterword to the Paperback Edition
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Illustration Credits
- Index