(SEC), Joel Seligman (1995).
The Transformation of Wall Street : A
History of the Securities and Exchange Commission and Modern Corporate
Finance. (Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press, 772 p. [rev.
1982 ed. with new afterword]). United States. Securities and Exchange
Commission -- History; Corporations -- United States -- Finance --
History.
(Texas International), Harlan D. Platt (1994).
The First Junk
Bond: A Story of Corporate Boom and Bust. (Armonk, NY: M.E.
Sharpe, 236 p.). Milken, Michael; Drexel Burnham Lambert Incorporated;
Securities industry -- Corrupt practices -- United States; Junk bonds
-- United States.
(Washington Public Power Supply System), Daniel Jack Chasan (1985).
The Fall of the House of WPPSS: The $2.25 Billion Horror Story That
Haunts the Nuclear Industry, the Bond Market, and the Northwest.
(Seattle, WA: Sasquatch Pub., 111 p.). Washington Public Power Supply
System--Finance; Electric utilities--Washington (State)--Finance;
Nuclear power plants--Washington (State)--Design and
construction--Finance; Default (Finance)--Washington (State); Bond
market.
Rawi Abdelal (2007).
Capital Rules: The Construction of Global Finance. (Cambridge,
MA: Harvard University Press, 304 p.). Professor, Harvard Business
School. International finance; Capital movements.
Intellectual, legal, political history of financial globalization.
How, why did world shift from: 1) 1914
- free capital movements, 2) 1944 - to capital controls,
1994 - back again? How have standards been
codified, transmitted internationally?
Russell B. Adams, Jr. (1977).
The Boston Money Tree. (New
York, NY: Crowell, 324 p.). Finance--Boston--History; Boston
(Mass.)--Commerce--History.
Louis Bachelier, Translated and with commentary by Mark Davis and
Alison Etheridge; With a foreword by Paul A. Samuelson (2006).
Louis Bachelier’s Theory of Speculation: The Origins of Modern Finance.
(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 192 p.). Professor of
Mathematics (Imperial College London); Professor of Probability
(University of Oxford). Finance -- mathematical; Stochastic analysis;
probability. Intellectual history of stochastic
analysis, financial economics, from Bachelier in
1900 to 1980s when the theory of option pricing was substantially
complete.
Jonathan B. Baskin and Paul.J. Miranti, Jr. (1997).
A History of
Corporate Finance. (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 355
p.). Academics. Finance - Middles Ages Renaissance to leveraged
buyouts and corporate govenance issues in the 1990's.
Harold Bierman, Jr. (2001).
Increasing Shareholder Value:
Distribution Policy, a Corporate Finance Challenge. (Boston, MA:
Kluwer Academic Publishers, p.). Corporate profits; Income
distribution; Investments--Valuation; Corporations--Finance;
Stockholders.
Albert S. Bolles (1969).
The Financial History of the United
States. (New York, NY: A. M. Kelley, 3 vols. [Vol. 1 orig. pub.
1879]). First Business Professor at Wharton. Finance, Public--United
States--History. Contents: v. 1. From 1774 to 1789, embracing the
period of the American Revolution. (Reprint of the 1896 ed.)--v. 2.
From 1789 to 1860. (Reprint of the 1894 ed.)--v. 3. From 1861 to 1885.
(Reprint of the 1894 ed.).
Richard A. Brealey and Helen Edwards (1991).
A Bibliography of
Finance. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 822 p.). Academic. Finance. An
extensive bibliography of journal articles and books about finance.
Richard A. Brealey and Stewart C. Myers (2003).
Principles of Corporate Finance. (Boston, MA: Irwin
McGraw-Hill, 1071 [7th ed.]). Corporations--Finance.
Reuven Brenner (2001).
The Force of Finance: Triumph of the
Capital Markets. (New York, NY: Texere, 220 p.). Finance;
Democracy.
John Brooks (1980).
The Games Players: Tales of Men and Money.
(New York, NY: Times Books, 376 p.). Financiers, Capitalists
ed. Youssef Cassis (1992).
Finance and Financiers in European
History, 1880-1960. (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 445
p.). Banks and banking--Europe--History--19th century--Congresses;
Banks and banking--Europe--History--20th century--Congresses;
Capitalists and financiers--Europe--History--19th century--Congresses;
Capitalists and financiers--Europe--History--20th century--Congresses;
Finance--Europe--History--19th century--Congresses;
Finance--Europe--History--20th century--Congresses.
Ron Chernow (1997).
The Death of the Banker: The Decline and
Fall of the Great Financial Dynasties and the Triumph of the Small
Investor. (New York, NY: Vintage Books, 130 p.). Morgan, J.
Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913; Warburg family; Banks and
banking--United States--History--20th century; Trust companies--United
States--History--20th century; Finance, Personal--United States;
Bankers--United States.
P. L. Cottrell (1979).
Industrial Finance, 1830-1914: The
Finance and Organization of English Manufacturing Industry. (New
York, NY: Methuen, 298 p.). Manufacturing industries--Great
Britain--Finance--History.
Emanuel Derman (2004).
My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics
and Finance. (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 304 p.). SunGard/IAFE Financial
Engineer (2000); Risk Hall of Fame (2002); Director of the Program in
Financial Engineering (Columbia University). Derman, Emanuel; Investment
advisors--Biography; Physicists--Biography; Options (Finance); Quantum
theory; Mathematical physics.
Davis Rich Dewey (2003).
Early Financial History of the United States.
(Washington, DC: Beard Books, 600 p.
Finance, Public--United States--History; Finance, Public--United
States--Bibliography; Tariff--United States--History.
S. Eckl, Jeffrey N. Robinson, and Dylan C. Thomas (1991).
Financial
Engineering: A Handbook of Derivative Products. (Cambridge, MA:
Blackwell, 243 p.). Corporations--Finance; Foreign exchange futures;
Futures; Swaps (Finance); Options (Finance); Financial engineering.
George William Edwards (1938).
The Evolution of Finance
Capitalism. (New York, NY: Longmans, Green and Co., 429 p.).
Capitalism; Finance--History; Finance--United States--History.
George Heberton Evans, Jr. (1936). British Corporation Finance,
1775-1850: A Study of Preference Shares. (Baltimore, MD: Johns
Hopkins Press, 208 p.). Corporations--Great Britain--Finance--History;
Corporations--Great Britain--History; Preferred stocks--Great
Britain--History.
Jane Flaherty (2008).
The Revenue Imperative: Union Financial Policy during the American
Civil War. (London, UK: Pickering and Chatto, 256 p.).
Assistant Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of History
(Texas A&M University). Civil War--history; Civil War--finance.
Union
financial policies (tariff, internal tax policies) initiated during
Civil War; new revenue system changed relationship between government, economy
in post-Civil War era; need to keep pace with
burgeoning expenses of conflict governed development of fiscal
policy; contingency played
pivotal role in Republican response to financing war.
Janet Gleeson (1999).
Millionaire: The Philanderer, Gambler, and
Duelist Who Invented Modern Finance. (New York, NY: Simon &
Schuster, 303 p.). Law, John, 1671-1729; Capitalists and
financiers--Biography. 18th century playboy who introduced concept of
collateral and founded speculative company which collapsed.
Marieke de Goede (2005).
Virtue, Fortune and Faith: A Genealogy of Finance.
(Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 235 p.). Lecturer in
Political History and International Relations (University of
Amsterdam). Finance--History; Economics--History; Money--History;
Value--History; Speculation--History.
Eds. William N. Goetzmann and K. Geert Rouwenhorst (2005).
The Origins of Value: The Financial Innovations That Created Modern
Capital Markets. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 404
p.). Finance--History; Money--History; Value--History; Capital
market--History; Speculation--History.
C.A.E. Goodhart (1969).
New York Money Market and the Finance of
Trade, 1900-1913. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 235
p.). Finance--New York (State)--New York--History; United
States--Commerce--History.
Keith Hollender (1994).
Scripophily: The Art of Finance. (New York, NY: Museum of
American Financial History, 157 p.). Stock certificates--Collectors
and collecting; Bonds--Collectors and collecting.
Jeremy Hope (2006).
Reinventing the CFO: How Financial Managers Can Transform Their Roles
and Add Greater Value. (Boston, MA: Harvard Business School
Press, 258 p.). Research Director of the Beyond Budgeting Roundtable.
Chief financial officers; Corporations--Finance.
Seven critical
roles CFOs must take to transform the finance operation.
James B. Jefferys (1977). Business Organisation in Great
Britain, 1856-1914. (New York, NY: Arno Press, 476 p.).
Corporations--Great Britain--Finance--History.
James J. Kimble (2006).
Mobilizing the Home Front: War Bonds and Domestic Propaganda.
(College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 200 p.). Assistant
Professor of Communication (Seton Hall University). Savings bonds
--United States --History; World War, 1939-1945 --Finance --United
States; Patriotism --United States --History; Nationalism --United
States --History. New understanding of
government's eight war bond drives and the psyche of the nation at
war.
Charles P. Kindleberger (1993).
A Financial History of Western
Europe. ( New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 524 p. [2nd
ed.]). Finance--Europe--History.
Eds. Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Kenneth L. Sokoloff; foreword by William
Janeway (2007).
Financing Innovation in the United States, 1870 to the Present.
(Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 428 p.). Professor in the Departments of
Economics and History (UCLA); Professor of Economics (UCLA). High
technology industries--United States--Finance--History; Technological
innovations--United States--Finance--History.
How inventors, technologically creative
entrepreneurs have raised funds for their projects at different stages
of U.S. economic development.
Thomas W. Lawson (1968).
Frenzied Finance; the Crime of
Amalgamated. (New York, NY: Greenwood Press, 559 p. [Reprint of
1905 ed.]). Standard Oil Company; Amalgamated Copper Co.; Speculation;
Insurance--United States; Gas companies--Boston.
Ed. Bruce N. Lehmann (2005).
The Legacy of Fischer Black.
(New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 306 p.). Professor of Finance
(Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies,
University of California, San Diego). Finance--Congresses.
Compiled and Edited by Richard R. Lindsey, Barry Schachter (2007).
How I Became a Quant: Insights from 25 of Wall Street’s Elite.
(Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 386 p.). Former President of Bear, Stearns
Securities Corporation, Chairman of the International Association of
Financial Engineers; Director of Quantitative Resources at Moore
Capital Management. Quantitative analysts--United States--Biography;
Finance--Mathematical models; Finance--Computer programs; Financial
engineering; Wall Street (New York, N.Y.)--Biography.
More than two dozen quants tell war stories, detail unexpected paths from halls of academia to Wall Street, reveal faces
behind quant revolution (exotic derivatives, structured investment
products, quantitative trading strategies, portfolio selection).
Louis Lowenstein (1991).
Sense and Nonsense in Corporate
Finance. (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 263 p.).
Corporations--Finance.
Roger Lowenstein (2008).
While America Aged: How Pension Debts Ruined General Motors, Stopped
the NYC Subways, Bankrupted San Diego, and Loom as the Next Financial
Crisis. (New York, NY: Penguin Press, 288 p.). Former Wall
Street Journal Columnist. Pensions--United States--Finance; Defined
benefit pension plans--United States; Retirement income--United
States. How corporations, governments ran up ruinous pension,
health-care promises to workers; destroyed American auto industry (GM,
in particular); rise of public pensions, public sector unions with justifiable benefits
followed by outrageous ones; San Diego cut a series of deals with
unions to short-change retirement system, use pension funds to run
city; massive scandal ensued.
Gregory P. Marchildon (1996). Profits and Politics: Beaverbrook
and the Gilded Age of Canadian Finance. (Toronto, ON: University
of Toronto Press, 348 p.). Beaverbrook, Max Aitken, Baron, 1879-1964;
Royal Securities Corporation--History; Consolidation and merger of
corporations--Canada--History; Business and politics--Canada--History;
Canada--Economic conditions--1867-1918.
Jerry W. Markham (2002).
A Financial History of the United
States. (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 3 vols.). Finance--United
States--History. Contents: v. 1. From Christopher Columbus to the
Robber Barons (1492-1900); v. 2. From J.P. Morgan to the institutional
investor (1900-1970); v. 3. From the age of derivatives into the new
millennium (1970-2001).
Robert N. McCauley, Judith S. Ruud, and Frank Iacono (1999).
Dodging
Bullets: Changing U.S. Corporate Capital Structure in the 1980s and
1990s. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 415 p.). Leveraged
buyouts--United States--History--20th century; Consolidation and
merger of corporations--United States--History--20th century;
Corporations--United States--Finance--History--20th century.
William L. Megginson (2005).
The Financial Economics of Privatization. (New York, NY:
Oxford University Press, 522 p.). Professor and Rainbolt Chair in
Finance at the Michael F. Price College of Business (University of
Oklahoma). Privatization; Government business enterprises; Finance,
Public. Author assesses where privatization
stands today and what are the next frontiers
Perry Mehrling (2005).
Fischer Black and the Revolutionary Idea of Finance. (New
York, NY: Wiley, 400 p.). Professor of Economics (Barnard College).
Black, Fischer, 1938- ; Finance--United States--History--20th century;
Economists--United States--Biography; Finance--Mathematical models;
Investments--Mathematical models.
Meade Minnigerode (2003).
The Financial Giants in United States History. (Washington,
DC: Beard Books, 260 p.). Finance--United States--History.
Lawrence E. Mitchell (2007).
The Speculation Economy: How Finance Triumphed Over Industry.
(San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 355 p.).
Industries--United States; Corporations--United States;
Finance--United States; Speculation--United States; United
States--Economic policy. Rise of Wall Street and investment banking as
key factor in American capitalism, federal government's response to
ever more complex role of finance capitalism; how birth of giant modern corporation spurred rise of stock market,
how, by dawn of 1920s, stock market left behind its business origins
to become very reason for creation of business itself.
Margaret G. Myers (1970).
A Financial History of the United
States. (New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 451 p.).
Finance, Public--United States--History; Finance--United
States--History.
Alasdair Nairn (2002).
Engines that Move Markets: Technology
Investing from Railroads to the Internet and Beyond. (New York,
NY: Wiley-Academy, 494 p.). Industries -- Finance.
Larry Neal (1990).
The Rise of Financial Capitalism:
International Capital Markets in the Age of Reason. (New York, NY:
Cambridge University Press, 278 p.). Capital market--Great
Britain--History; Capital market--Netherlands--History; International
finance--History.
Alexander Dana Noyes (1969).
Thirty Years of American Finance; a
Short Financial History of the Government and People of the United
States since the Civil War, 1865-1896. (New York, NY: Greenwood
Press, 277 p. (orig. pub. 1898)). Finance--United States--History.
Jocelyn Pixley (2004).
Emotions in Finance: Distrust and Uncertainty in Global Markets.
(New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 228 p.). Senior Lecturer in
the School of Sociology (University of New South Wales).
Finance--Psychological aspects; Trust--Economic aspects; Uncertainty;
Economic forecasting--Psychological aspects; Risk
assessment--Psychological aspects; Risk management.
Geoffrey Poitras (2000).
The Early History of Financial
Economics, 1478-1776: From Commercial Arithmetic to Life Annuities and
Joint Stocks. (Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 522 p.).
Finance--History; Economics--History; Business mathematics--History;
Life annuities--History; Stocks--History.
Cedric Read... [et al.] (2001).
eCFO: Sustaining Value in the
New Corporation. (New York, NY: Wiley, 372 p.). Electronic
commerce--Finance--Management; Corporations--Finance--Management;
Chief financial officers.
Margaret Reid (1988).
All-Change in the City: The Revolution in
Britain's Financial Sector. (Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire,
UK: Macmillan, 288 p.). Bank of England; International Stock Exchange;
Finance--Great Britain; Finance--England--London; International
finance.
James Riedel, Jing Jin, and Jian Gao (2007).
How China Grows: Investment, Finance, and Reform. (Princeton,
NJ: Princeton University Press, 222 p.). Professor of International
Economics (Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International
Studies); Director of China Strategy (UBS AG Hong Kong) and a Professor
(Beijing's Central University of Finance and Economics); Vice-Governor
(China Development Bank in Beijing). Finance--China; China--Economic
policy. Relation between investment, finance, growth in
China. investment - engine of growth,
main source of technological progress, structural change; weaknesses of financial system that undermine
efficiency in investment allocation threaten growth;
financial-sector reform, development are necessary to sustain long-term
growth, maintain macroeconomic stability.
Mark J. Roe (1994).
Strong Managers, Weak Owners: The Political
Roots of American Corporate Finance. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton
University Press, 324 p.). Corporations--United States--Finance.
Catherine R. Schenk (2003).
Hong Kong as an International
Financial Centre: Emergence and Development, 1945-65. (New York,
NY: Routledge, 203 p.). Finance China Hong Kong; International finance
China Hong Kong; Hong Kong (China) Economic conditions.
Robert Sobel (1993).
Dangerous Dreamers : The Financial
Innovators from Charles Merrill to Michael Milken. (New York, NY:
Wiley, 260 p.). Academic (Hofstra University). Milken, Michael;
Stockbrokers--United States; Securities industry--Corrupt
practices--United States
Robert Solomon (1999).
Money on the Move: The Revolution in
International Finance since 1980. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton
University Press, 210 p.). International finance.
ed. Joel M. Stern and Donald H. Chew, Jr. (2003).
The Revolution
in Corporate Finance. (Malden, MA: Blackwell Business, 631 p. [4th
ed.; orig. pub. 1986]). Corporations-Finance.
Michael R. Sutcliff, Michael Donnellan (2004).
CFO Insights: Delivering High Performance. (Hoboken, NJ: Wiey,
416 p.). Managing Partner of the Accenture Finance & Performance
Management Service Line; Executive Partner in the Accenture Products
Operating Group. Corporations--Finance; Chief financial officers.
Link between high performance business and role of
the CFO; five common characteristics.
John B. Taylor (2007).
Global Financial Warriors: The Untold Story of International
Finance in the Post-9/11 World. (New York, NY: Norton, 320
p.). Former Treasury Under Secretary for International Affairs
from 2001 to 2005; Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics
(Stanford University). International finance--History--21st
century; International finance--Political aspects; International
finance--Government policy. Author
assembles a coalition to freeze terrorist assets worldwide, plans
the financial reconstruction of Afghanistan, oversees the
development of a new currency in Iraq, and deals with the spread
of financial crises.
William Arthur Thomas (1982). The Finance of British Industry,
1918-1976. (New York, NY: Methuen, 351 p.). Corporations--Great
Britain--Finance--History; Finance--Great Britain--History.
Tetsuro Toya (2006).
The Political Economy of the Japanese Financial Big Bang:
Institutional Change in Finance and Public Policymaking. (New
York, NY: Oxford University Press, 328 p.). Finance --Japan; Financial
institutions --Deregulation --Japan; Japan --Economic policy --1989-.
Performance failures, scandals, fluidity in party politics led Ministry of Finance to promote reforms that otherwise would have been
opposed.
Irwin Unger (1964).
The Greenback Era; A Social and Political
History of American Finance, 1865-1879. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton
University Press, 467 p.). Greenbacks--History; Currency
question--United States--History; United States--Politics and
government--1865-1877. Winner of Pulitzer Prize in History.
Janet Wasko (1982). Movies and Money: Financing the American
Film Industry. (Norwood, NJ: ABLEX Pub. Corp., 247 p.). Motion
picture industry--United States--Finance.
Robert E. Wright (2002).
The Wealth of Nations Rediscovered:
Integration and Expansion in American Financial Markets, 1780-1850.
(New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 240 p.). Finance--United
States--History; Wealth--United States--History; United
States--Economic policy; United States--Economic conditions.
ed. Robert E. Wright and Richard Sylla (2002).
The History of
Corporate Finance: The Development of Anglo-American Securities
Markets, Laws, and Financial Practices and Theories. (Brookfield,
VT: Pickering & Chatto, p.).
Corporations--Finance--United States--History;
Corporations--Finance--Great Britain--History;
Corporations--Finance--Law and legislation--United States--History;
Corporations--Finance--Law and legislation--Great Britain--History.
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