Are global city office markets inherently unstable? This examination of office markets in
major world cities analyses the flows of capital that create urban form, the nature of …

This chapter discusses the history of option contracts from ancient times until the
appearance of Theorie der Prämiengeschäffe by Vinzenz Bronzin in 1908. The history …

Commodity Risk Management goes beyond just an introductory treatment of derivative
securities, dealing with more advanced topics and approaching the subject matter from a …

Justice in the Marketplace in Early Modern Spain examines two late scholastic economic
treatises, the Provechoso tratado de cambios of Cristóbal de Villalón (1542) and the …

In 2004, I and other non-government organisation (NGO) colleagues went to a meeting with
UK government officials. The purpose was to discuss the UK's presidency of the upcoming …

Medieval bishops condemned and restricted the sale of corrodies (a type of annuity), partly
on the grounds of their perceived unprofitability. The available data on the profitability of …

This paper employs a unique, hand‐collected dataset of exchange rates for five major
currencies (the lira of Barcelona, the pound sterling of England, the pond groot of Flanders …

The historical explanations for the development of modern English credit and finance often
overlook the late-medieval period, favoring instead a late fruition by focusing on economic …

In 1913, historian Charles Beard published a book that argued that the drafting and
ratification of the US Constitution was more driven by the desire of those involved to protect …

From the medieval period, the Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem was one of the
longest-lived, wealthiest, and farthest reaching of the the crusading military orders, perhaps …