A History of the Global Stock Market: From Ancient Rome to Silicon Valley

The stock market is central to the global economy. Tens of millions of people look to it to provide for a comfortable retirement. Central bankers watch it closely as they set monetary policy. Businesses around the world are forced to adjust the way they operate to meet the demands of equity investors. Yet very little has been written about how the modern global stock market came to be. In A History of the Global Stock Market, B. Mark Smith weaves an entertaining tale that ranges from medieval trading companies and nineteenth-century robber barons to modern theorists and international speculators. Here, Smith debunks the popular myth that the market is inevitably subject to recurring speculative bubbles and discredits the notion that the current globalization of the market is something radically different from what has occurred in the past.

Informative, entertaining, and written for specialists and non-specialists alike, A History of the Global Stock Market is a worthy read for anyone who wants to understand the role of the stock market in the global economy.

Author: B. Mark Smith
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 10/01/2004
Pages: 350
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.08w x 0.78d
ISBN13: 9780226764047
ISBN10: 0226764044
BISAC Categories:
- Business & Economics | Investments & Securities | Stocks

About the Author
A professional stock trader for nearly twenty years, B. Mark Smith is the author of Toward Rational Exuberance: The Evolution of the American Stock Market.