William N Goetzmann Książki

The analysis of original documents is a means for economists to focus on the primary text, to analyze and interpret the object and to move to interpretation and understanding of its relationship to modern financial instruments and markets. The result is a collection of interdisciplinary studies of the key innovations in finance from the Old Babylonian loan tablets, to the 1953 London Debt Agreement that span regions in Asia, Africa, North America and Europe.

Thoroughly updated to reflect recent research and includes many additional examples. Rigorous, yet not overly complex, it makes extensive use of empirical examples and evidence to keep investment theory and analysis from becoming too abstract for students to grasp. The Fourth Edition includes thorough, up-to-date coverage of multi-index models and international diversification as well as new material on portfolio management that examines not only the different types of investment strategies used, but the underlying philosophies behind those strategies. Instructor's Manual available.

Exploring the critical role of finance over the millennia, and around the world, Goetzmann details how wondrous financial technologies and institutions--money, bonds, banks, corporations, and more--have helped urban centers to expand and cultures to flourish. And it's not done reshaping our lives, as Goetzmann considers the challenges we face in the future, such as how to use the power of finance to care for an aging and expanding population