The Origins of Value: The Financial Innovations that Created Modern Capital Markets

by WilliamN.Goetzmann (Editor), K.GeertRouwenhorst (Editor)

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  Hardcover
  2005

  $207.39

  Presenting a survey of financial innovations that have changed the world, this book shows how the world's important financial tools: loans, interest rates, stocks, mutual funds, the coproatin, and stock exchanges came into being. It ranges from the invention of interest in Mesopotamia to the creation of mutual finds and inflation-indexed bonds.