Finance Masters : A Brief History of International Financial Centers in the L...

by Olivier Coispeau

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Finance Masters : A Brief History of International Financial Centers in the Last Millennium, Hardcover by Coispeau, Olivier, ISBN 9813108827, ISBN-13 9789813108820, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US One thousand years ago, a handful of dynamic medieval city states developed trade at the frontier of capitalism. Their unique commercial ambition led to the emergence of finance capitals of international significance: Finance Masters. From the 11th century onward, international financial hubs, led by astute and bold merchant bankers and visionary leaders, inspired the numerous innovations that triggered economic revolutions in the last millennium and laid the ground for modern finance. 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 2008–2009 Great Recession showed that working on fundamental issues such as market structure, pricing mechanism, and games was indeed necessary but probably still insufficient to create the antibodies needed to mitigate systemic risk and prevent the irrational exuberance capable of triggering devastating economic crash. In the continuation of the Theory of Moral Sentiments written by Adam Smith in 1759, seventeen years before his Wealth of Nations, it seems a deeper historical understand

• Publisher: World Industries Scientific Publishing Co Pte LTD
• Year: 2016
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9789813108820
• Condition: Fine

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