The Origins of Value: The Financial Innovations that Created Modern Capital Markets
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- Started reading:
- 1st April 2007
- Finished reading:
- 11th April 2007
Review
Rating: 8
Excellent book on the history of money. Got to learn a lot of fun things like - how China was the first one to use paper money, where does the word stock ( a wooden stick that was used as a record of debt) comes from, why the interest paid by a bond is called coupon, John Law and how he was ahead of every one in creating a very similar system to modern paper money in 1780s in France.
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