Financial History

Crowd manias from the Mississippi scheme and South Sea Bubble to witch trials.

The late-1920s boom in margin loans and investment trusts, and the 1929 crash.

Interest rates from Babylonian lending through Rome and Europe to modern bonds.

What Germany's 1921 to 1923 hyperinflation did to ordinary people's lives.

The Morgan banks from 1830s London to J.P. Morgan and Morgan Stanley in the 1980s.

How the gold standard spread the Depression, and why leaving it early meant recovery.

Two centuries of a Jewish banking family from Hamburg to London and New York.

Gold from ancient Egypt and Lydian coins to the end of Bretton Woods.

How four central bankers and the gold standard turned a slump into the Depression.

The rise of Bitcoin and the people trying to build a new money for the internet.

How 1930s lessons guided policy in 2008, averting a depression but adding errors.

Venture capital from Arthur Rock to SoftBank, and why a few big bets pay for all.

The 1933 Senate hearings exposing bankers' practices that led to securities laws.

The standard account of 1720.

Wall Street from 1920 to 1938: the boom, the crash, the Depression and reform.

Wall Street in the 1960s: performance funds, conglomerates and the paperwork crisis.

Germany's 1914 to 1923 inflation, with a more sympathetic view of its policy.

Monthly data tested against explanations of Germany's 1919 to 1923 inflation.

The full political, social and economic history of Germany's 1914 to 1924 inflation.

How Swiss bankers kept Jewish deposits and helped Nazis hide looted money.

The best single narrative of 1929 itself.

The Medici bank from its 1397 founding to its 1494 collapse.

The 1907 panic day by day, from a failed copper corner to J.P. Morgan's rescue.

The Dutch tulip episode of 1636 and 1637 from archives, and how its legend arose.

The 1914 closure of the exchange, and how the dollar took over.

The history of finance by instrument: credit, bonds, stocks, insurance and property.

An Ohio lawyer's diary of the Depression years as he lived through them.

The 1944 Bretton Woods conference as a contest between Keynes and Harry Dexter White.

Why bankers kept lending to Philip II of Spain despite four payment suspensions.

How trading in Dutch East India Company shares grew into the first stock market.

Insider: the reporters who received and worked the Mossack Fonseca leak.

The Austrian account of 1929 and the policy response that followed

The Melbourne property mania and bank collapses of the 1890s.

The definitive study of the bank failure that broke Central European finance.

The four-volume history of the world's oldest continuous financial centre.

Companion investigation into Swiss banks and looted wartime assets.

John Law, the Mississippi bubble and the invention of paper money in France.

Contemporaneous reporting on the collapse and the Icesave dispute.

Gold's history from early kingdoms to the mining boom after the 2008 crisis.

Modern retelling with more on the stabilisation and the Rentenmark.

How physicists and mathematicians came to run money; useful context for Simons.

The 1920s Florida land boom and its collapse.

A reference history of US securities markets from the 1929 crash to 1933.

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Financial innovations, from Mesopotamian interest and Chinese paper money onward.

How the Federal Reserve was argued into existence, from the 1907 panic to 1913.

The 1929 Wall Street crash: the greed and folly behind America's greatest collapse.