A History of Corporate Finance (Hardcover)

Preface; 1. History and the modern theory of finance; 2. Medieval and Renaissance origins; 3. Corporate finance in an age of global exploration: trading companies and oceanic discovery, 1450?1720; 4. The emergence of public markets for investment securities, 1688?1815; 5. Finance in an age of canals and railroads, 1775?1900; 6. Common stock finance and the rise of managerial capitalism, 1900?1940; 7. The financing of center firms, 1940?1973; 8. Conglomerates and leveraged buy-out partnerships; Appendix one: Finance and informational asymmetries in the ancient world; Appendix two: International patterns of corporate governance; Epilogue.