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.