The global securities market
Subtitle: a history
By: Ranald C. Michie
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 399
ISBN-13: 9780199280612
Subjects: Securities -- History; Securities industry -- History
Description: "This history of the global securities market is the product of over 30 years of research by one of the world's foremost financial historians. It covers all aspects of the history of the securities market from its beginnings in Medieval Venice, through Amsterdam and London, to its operations in Tokyo and New York today. It also integrates the history of both stocks and bonds, established and emerging markets, stock exchanges and over-the counter trading, and the crises and continuity that have made the global securities market such a force in the world over the centuries."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [376]-388) and index