Title: Finance Masters
Description: This book is a short economic history of International Financial Centers (IFC) in the last Millenium, from the first medieval international fairs to contemporary IFCs. It explains how finance practices developped from humble debut in the last millenium accross geographies. The book reviews the key ingredients for success and sometimes failure of these truly extraordinary professionals who changed the world. The book has been written for a large international audience.
Subjects: Finance, International Financial Center, IFC, Ethics, Middle Ages, Medieval Economy, Enlightenment, Commercial revolution, Economic history, International finance, History, Capitalists and financiers, Internationaler Kreditmarkt
Places: St. Giles fair, Champaign fairs, Florence, Venice, Flanders, Antwerp, Genoa, Amsterdam, London, New York, Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo
People: Bardi, Peruzzi, Acciaiuoli, Medicis, Fugger, Marco Polo, Zheng He, John Law, Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Louis Bachelier, Walter Bagehot, Ben Bernanke
Time periods: 1000-2016