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Where modern finance was invented: the first joint-stock company, the first liquid secondary market and the first recorded speculative bubble, all of which still explain how markets behave.

6 books

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  1. TulipmaniaAnne Goldgar, 2007
  2. The World's First Stock ExchangeLodewijk Petram, 2014
  3. The First Modern EconomyJan de Vries, Ad van der Woude, 1997

Books 6

Confusion de Confusiones
T1 Confusion de Confusiones
Joseph de la Vega · 1688 · The first book ever written about trading a stock market, from 1688.
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The First Modern Economy
T1 The First Modern Economy
Jan de Vries, Ad van der Woude · 1997 · The definitive economic history of the Dutch Republic, 1500-1815.
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The Dutch Seaborne Empire
T2 The Dutch Seaborne Empire
C. R. Boxer · 1965 · The VOC and WIC as commercial and military enterprises.
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The Embarrassment of Riches
T2 The Embarrassment of Riches
Simon Schama · 1987 · The culture of a society that got rich first and was uneasy about it.
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Tulipmania
T2 Tulipmania
Anne Goldgar · 2007 · The archival demolition of most of what people believe about the tulip bubble.
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The World's First Stock Exchange
T2 The World's First Stock Exchange
Lodewijk Petram · 2014 · How VOC shares actually traded: brokers, forwards, options, settlement.
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