Finance Masters
Subtitle: A Brief History of International Financial Centers in the last Millennium
Publisher: World Scientific; WSPC
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Singapore
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 339
ISBN-13: 9789813108820
Description: "This book explores not only classic financial centers, but also offshore financial centers and gambling centers to connect them to contemporary finance, and it also delves into the unique function of leading financial hubs to execute financial transactions over a wide geographical domain and transform the world economy."--Back cover
Table of contents: label: Acknowledgement; label: Foreword by Pr. Seamus Grimes; label: Introduction; label: Chapter 1.
title: From the Annual Fairs of the 11th Century to Early International Banking; label: Chapter 2.
title: The Domination of the Mediterranean Region; label: Chapter 3.
title: The shift toward the North of Europe in the 16th Century; label: Chapter 4.
title: The Transatlantic New Financial Order in the 18th Century; label: Chapter 5.
title: Pools, Bots and Trolls; label: Chapter 6.
title: Uninvited Guests to the Party; label: Conclusion; label: Maps; label: Graphs; label: Acronyms; label: Bibliography; label: Index