The origins of value :  the financial innovations that created modern capital markets / 
edited by William N. Goetzmann and K. Geert Rouwenhorst. 
 - Oxford ;  New York :  Oxford University Press,  2005. 
 - xii, 404 p. :  ill. ;  30 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-394) and index. 
<br/><br/> The invention of interest : Sumerian loans /  Roman shares /  How business was conducted on the Chinese silk road during the Tang Dynasty, 618-907. Part 1. The resolution of an international dispute on the silk road ca. 670 /  The origins of paper money in China /  Paying in paper : a government voucher from the southern Song /  From tallies and chirographs to Franklin's printing press at Passy : the evolution of the technology of financial claims /  Fibonacci and the financial revolution /  Bonds and governement debt in Italian city-states, 1250-1650 /  Venture shares of the Dutch East India Company /  Perpetuities in the stream of history : a paying instrument form the golden age of Dutch finance /  Amsterdam as the cradle of modern futures trading and options trading, 1550-1650 /  Annuities in early modern Europe /  John Law : innovating theorist and policymaker /  The invention of inflation-indexed bonds in early America /  The origins of mutual funds /  Transatlantic paper and the emergence of the American capital market /  The origins of the New York stock exchange /  The first "Eurobonds" : the Rothschilds and the financing of the Holy Alliance, 1818-1822 /  German debt in the twentieth century /  King Leopold's bonds /  Marc van de Mieroop --  Ulrike Malmendier --  Valerie Hansen ; Part II. Records from a seventh-century pawnshop in China /  Valerie Hansen and Ana Mata-Fink --  Richard von Glahn --  William N. Goetzmann and Elisabeth Kèoll --  William N. Goetzmann and Laura Williams --  William N. Goetzmann --  Luciano Pezzolo --  Larry Neal --  William N. Goetzmann and K. Geert Rouwenhorst --  Oscar Gelderblom and Joost Jonker --  James M. Poterba --  Antoin E. Murphy --  Robert J. Shiller --  K. Geert Rouwenhorst --  Ned W. Downing --  Richard Sylla --  Niall Ferguson --  Timothy W. Guinnane --  Robert Harms. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0195175719 (alk. paper) 9780195175714 (alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2005002394 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA4X2180  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>012878866  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Finance--History.<br/>Money--History.<br/>Value--History.<br/>Capital market--History.<br/>Speculation--History.<br/>Financièen.<br/>Kapitaalmarkt.<br/>Vernieuwing.<br/>Finances--Histoire.<br/>Monnaie--Histoire.<br/>Valeur--Histoire.<br/>Marchâe financier--Histoire.<br/>Spâeculation--Histoire.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HG171  / .O69 2005 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>332/.041