Money Changes Everything
by William N. Goetzmann
A Yale finance professor on how finance made civilization possible, from Mesopotamian loans to modern markets. Scholarly and surprising.
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you want finance's deep history.
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you want a quick overview; see Ferguson.
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Three things you will actually use
- Finance is a technology of time.
- Civilization needed credit.
- Innovation is ancient.
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Read the chapters on ancient Mesopotamia.
Our verdict
Finance made civilization.
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