Readings
and References (underlines indicate HTML links)
Alter, G and J.C. Riley, 1986, “How to Bet on Lives: A Guide to
Life Contingent Contracts,” Research in Economic History.
Anderson, William, The Price of
Antoine Murphy, John Law, Innovative Theorist and Policy Maker
Baldwin, Simeon E. “American Business Corporations before 1786.” American
Historical Review 8 (April 1903): 449-65.
Benjamin Franklin, The Nature and
Necessity of a Paper-Currency A Modest Enquiry into the Nature and
Necessity of a Paper-Currency.
Bernstein, Peter, 1998, Against the Gods, The Remarkable
Story of Risk, Wiley.
Bernstein, Peter, Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street,
Free Press.
Books for the Course:
Bordo, Michael D., Barry Eichengreen and Douglas A., Irwin, 1999, “Is Globalization Today Really Different than Globalization
a Hundred Years Ago?” NBER Working Paper No.
W7195
Bordo, Michael D., Eichengreen, Barry J. and Kim, Jongwoo,
"Was
There Really an Earlier Period of International Financial Integration
Comparable to Today?" (September 1998). NBER
Working Paper No. W6738. http://ssrn.com/abstract=132348
Chancellor, Edward; Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of
Financial Speculation.
Charles Trzcinka and Andrey Ukhov, 2005,
“Financial Globalization and Risk Sharing: Welfare Effects
and the Optimality of Open Markets,” working paper.
David M. Schaps The Invention of
coinage in India, Lydia and China
Davis, Andrew MacFarland. “A
Connecticut Land Bank of the Eighteenth Century.”
Dercksen, J.G., ed. 1999, Trade and Finance in Ancient
DeSoto, Hernando, 2000, The Mystery
of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else,
Basic Books.
Edelstein, Michael, 1982, British Foreign Investment in the Age of
High Imperialism.
Egmond, Warren,
Practical Mathematics in the
Italian Renaissance.
François Crouzet,
1987, La Grande Inflation.
Geoffrey Poitras, 2000, The Early History of Financial Economics, 1478 – 1776,
Edward Elgar. Chapters up to 1600.
Goddeeris, Anne, 2002, Economy and Society in
Goetzmann and Ukhov, 2005, “British Investment Overseas 1870-1913: A Modern Portfolio
Theory Approach” forthcoming, Review of Finance.
Goetzmann, Ukhov and Zhu, 2000, “China and the World Financial Markets 1870-1930: Modern
Lessons From Historical Globalization,”
Forthcoming, Economic History Review.
Goodwin, Jason, Greenback: The Almighty Dollar and the Invention
of
Hans Julius Wolff, 1940, “An Oxyrhynchus
Receipt for Repayment of Loans”
Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association,
Vol. 71. (1940), pp. 616-622
Hansen, Valerie, Negotiating Daily Life in Traditional
Hansmann, Henry, Kraakman, Reinier H. and Squire, Richard C., "Law and the Rise
of the Firm" (January 2006). ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 57/2006 http://ssrn.com/abstract=873507
Harvard Exhibition: Sunk in
Lucre’s Charms: South Sea Bubble Resources in the Kress Collection
Herbert Feis, 1930,
Hobson, J.H., Imperialism.
Howard J.
Hudson, Michael and Marc Van de Mieroop,
eds. 2002, Debt and Economic Renewal in the Ancient Near East,
CDL Press.
Hudson, Michael and Marc Van de Mieroop,
eds. 2002, Debt and Economic
Renewal in the Ancient Near East, CDL Press.
J.C. Riley, 1980, International Government Finance and the
James Tracey, 1985, A Financial Revolution in the Hapsburg
James Tracey, 1990, The Rise of Merchant Empires: Long Distance
Trade in the Early Modern World: 1350 -1750.
John Law, Essay on a Land Bank.
John Mickelthwait, Adrian Wooldridge, The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea
Joseph de la Vega, Confusiones de Confusiones.
K Peng, I Choi, 2001, “Culture and Systems of Thought: Holistic
Versus Analytic Cognition” Psychological Review.
Keenan,
James G., 1997, Demotic and Greek Texts from an Egyptian Family
Archive in the Fayum (fourth to Third Century B.C.) Oriental Institute Publications volume. 113.
Kohn, Meir, The Origins of
Western Economic Success: Commerce, Finance, and Government in Pre-Industrial
Europe, Unpublished, available on his website.
Kuhlmann, 1983,
Larry Neal, The
Rise of Financial Capitalism: International Capital Markets in the Age of Reason.
Lenin, Vladimir Il'ich 1917, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism.
Lien-sheng Yang, 1952, Money and Credit
in
Lowenfeld, Henry ,
1909, Investment and Exact Science
M. Boone, K. Davids, P. Janssens (eds.), 2003, Urban Public Debts: Urban Government and the Market for
Annuities in Western Europe, Brepols.
STRONGLY RECOMMENDED
M. Boone, K. Davids, P. Janssens (eds.), 2003, Urban Public Debts: Urban Government and the Market for
Annuities in Western Europe, Brepols.
MacDonald, James, A
Free Nation Deep in Debt, Farrar, Strauss, Giroux.
Mackay, Charles,
1841, Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds,
Chapter on John Law.
Maclennan, Hugh, 1935, Oxyrhynchus:
An Economic and Social Study. Adolph H. Hakkert.
Marjolein ‘t Hart, Joost
Jonker , Jan Luiten van Zanden (Eds), 1997, A Financial
History of the
Markowitz, Harry, Portfolio
Selection: Efficient Diversification of Investments.
Marshack, 1989, Evolution of the human capacity: The
symbolic evidence, Yearbook of Physical
Anthropology, 1989.
Marshack, Alexander, 1972, The
Roots of Civilization: The Cognitive Beginnings of Man's First Art, Symbol and
Notation Moyer Bell Ltd; Rev&Exp edition, 1991.
Mattessich, Richard, 2000, The Beginnings of Accounting and Accounting Thought,
McBrearty, S. and A.S. Brooks, 2000,
“The Revolution that Wasn’t: A New Interpretation of the Origin of Modern Human
Behavior, “ Journal of Human Evolution, Nov;39(5):453-563.
Meninger, Karl, 1992, Number Words and
Number Symbols : A Cultural History of Numbers,
Millet, Paul, 2002, Lending and Borrowing in Ancient Athens,
Millet, Paul, 2002, Lending and Borrowing in Ancient Athens,
Mueller, Reinhold, The Venetian Money
Market.
Munro, John,
2003, “The Medieval Origins of the Financial Revolution: Usury, Rentes and Negotiability,” The International
History Review 25(3) 505-562.
Neugebauer, O. The
Exact Sciences in Antiquity. 1969.
Niall Ferguson, The
Cash Nexus, Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000.
Nissen, Hans, Peter Damerow and Robert Englund, 1993, Archaic
Bookkeeping,
Obstfeld, Maurice and
Ping Xinwei A Monetary History of China
2 vols., 1994 reprint.
Polanyi, Karl, Conrad Arensberg
and Harry Pearson,1957, Trade and Market in the Early Empires, Regency Press.
Preda, Alex, 2004, “Informative Prices, Rational Investors: The Emergence of
the Random Walk Hypothesis and the Nineteenth-Century " History
of political economy [0018-2702] vol:36 iss:2 pg:351
Quarterly Journal of Economics 13 (October 1898): 70-84.
Reserve: Feis, Herbert, 1930,
Geoffrey Poitras, 2000, The Early History of Financial Economics, 1478 – 1776,
Edward Elgar. [available
only on reserve]
Murphy, Antoin, John Law: Innovative Theorist and Policy-Maker
[on reserve]
Polanyi, Karl, Conrad Arensberg
and Harry Pearson, 1957, Trade and Market in the Early Empires, Regency
Press. [on reserve]
Polanyi, Karl, Conrad Arensberg
and Harry Pearson,1957, Trade and Market in the Early Empires, Regency Press.
[Available only on reserve]
Richard Von Glahn, 1996, Fountain of
Fortune: Money and Monetary Policy in
Robert Babcock, The Spinelli
Family. Guide to an Exhibition at the Beinecke Library (New Haven,
1989)
Roger Shaler Bagnall “SPP XX 74: The Last
Preserved Bank-Diagraphe,” Tyche 10
(1995) 1-7 (with K. A. Worp)
Schmandt-Besserat, Denise, 1992, Before Writing, Volume I.
Shen Kangshen,
John N. Crossley, Anthony W. -C. Lun
, Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Arts, The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical
Art : Companion and Commentary, selected problems for analysis.
Sigler, Laurence, 2003, Fibonacci’s Liber Abaci,
Springer. Paperback.
Slotsky, Alice, 1997, The Bourse of
Stable URL:
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Stolper, Matthew W. Entrepreneurs and Empire. 1985. Leiden: Nederlands
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Swetz, Frank, 1987, Capitalism
and Arithmetic, The
New Math of the Fifteen Century.
Sylla, Richard and Sidney Homer, A
History of Interest Rates. Rutgers University Press; 3rd Rev. edition.
The Franklin Papers at Yale University. An extraordinary
resource on one of
The Great Mirror of Folly
The Suan shu
shu 筭數書
'Writings on Reckoning [look for business problems]
This book is sold together with
Macay’s Extraordinary Popular
Delusions and the Madness of Crowds which has a chapter on John Law.
Udo Hielscher, 2003, Financing the American
Revolution.
Ukhov,
Andrey, 2003, “Financial Innovation and Russian Government Debt Before
1918” Yale ICF Working Paper No. 03-20.
Velde, Francois, John Law’s System. Unpublished
manuscript, downloadable from his website.
W. Allyn Rickett, translator, Guanzi: Political,
Economic, and Philosophical Essays from Early China, selected chapters to be
identified.
Walter Scheidel, 2006, “The divergent evolution of coinage in eastern and western
Eurasia” Working Paper,
Weidenmeir, W.D., 2000, “The Market
for Confederate Cotton
Bonds,” Explorations in Economic History, January.
Weir, David and Francois Velde, 1992, “The
Financial Market and Government Debt Policy in
Weir, David and Francois Velde, 1992, “The
Financial Market and Government Debt Policy in
Weir, David, 1989, Tontines, Public Finance and Revolution in
Weir, David, 1989, Tontines, Public Finance and Revolution in
William G. Roy,
1999, Socializing Capital,
William G. Roy,
1999, Socializing Capital,
William Graham Sumner, 1898,
Robert Morris: The Financier and the Finances of the American
Revolution, Vol. 1 (Paperback Reprint).