The origins of value
Subtitle: the financial innovations that created modern capital markets
By: edited by William N. Goetzmann and K. Geert Rouwenhorst.
Contributors: Goetzmann, William N.; Rouwenhorst, K. Geert.
Publisher: Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780195175714
Subjects: Finance -- History; Money -- History; Value -- History; Capital market -- History; Speculation -- History
Description: "From the invention of interest in Mesopotamia and the origin of paper money in China, to the creation of mutual funds, inflation-indexed bonds, and global financial securities, here is a sweeping survey of financial innovations that have changed the world." "Written by a distinguished group of experts and illustrated with over one hundred color photographs of landmark financial documents (including the first paper money), The Origins of Value traces the evolution of finance through 4,000 years of history. Readers see how and why many of our most important financial tools and institutions - loans, interest rates, stocks, bonds, mutual funds, the corporation, and the New York Stock Exchange, to name a few - came into being."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: "This book is given by Wes Dawson in honor of Anne K. Dawson"--Bookplate.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-394) and index.
Table of contents: title: The invention of interest : Sumerian loans -- Marc van de Mieroop; title: Roman shares -- Ulrike Malmendier; title: How business was conducted on the Chinese silk road during the Tang Dynasty, 618-907. Part 1. The resolution of an international dispute on the silk road ca. 670 -- Valerie Hansen ; Part II. Records from a seventh-century pawnshop in China / -- Valerie Hansen and Ana Mata-Fink; title: The origins of paper money in China -- Richard von Glahn; title: Paying in paper : a government voucher from the southern Song -- William N. Goetzmann and Elisabeth Köll; title: From tallies and chirographs to Franklin's printing press at Passy : the evolution of the technology of financial claims -- William N. Goetzmann and Laura Williams; title: Fibonacci and the financial revolution -- William N. Goetzmann; title: Bonds and governement debt in Italian city-states, 1250-1650 -- Luciano Pezzolo; title: Venture shares of the Dutch East India Company -- Larry Neal; title: Perpetuities in the stream of history : a paying instrument form the golden age of Dutch finance -- William N. Goetzmann and K. Geert Rouwenhorst; title: Amsterdam as the cradle of modern futures trading and options trading, 1550-1650 -- Oscar Gelderblom and Joost Jonker; title: Annuities in early modern Europe -- James M. Poterba; title: John Law : innovating theorist and policymaker -- Antoin E. Murphy; title: The invention of inflation-indexed bonds in early America -- Robert J. Shiller; title: The origins of mutual funds -- K. Geert Rouwenhorst; title: Transatlantic paper and the emergence of the American capital market -- Ned W. Downing; title: The origins of the New York stock exchange -- Richard Sylla; title: The first "Eurobonds" : the Rothschilds and the financing of the Holy Alliance, 1818-1822 -- Niall Ferguson; title: German debt in the twentieth century -- Timothy W. Guinnane; title: King Leopold's bonds-- Robert Harms.