Pioneers of Financial Economics: Volume 1: Contributions Prior to Irving Fisher - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 184542381X ISBN 13: 9781845423810

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2006

Synopsis

The search for the pioneers of financial economics contained in this volume places the origins of financial economics well outside the conventional boundaries of the history of economic thought. Under the editorship of Geoffrey Poitras, a leading authority on the history of financial economics, these specially commissioned essays comprise contributions on the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries, and include the work of both well-known and less familiar historical figures. The subjects studied display a variety of philosophical foundations and include: Jacob Bernoulli, Joseph de la Vega, Edmond Halley, Abraham de Moivre, Duvillard de Durand, Jules Regnault, Henri Lefevre, Louis Bachelier, and Vincenz Bronzin. Life annuity valuation, the modified internal rate of return, the nineteenth-century science of financial investments, and the early development of option pricing models are just some of the issues dealt with by these early thinkers and explored in depth within these pages. An outstanding volume of original analysis, Pioneers of Financial Economics is an essential reference source of seminal contributions on the early history of financial economics.

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Edited by Geoffrey Poitras, Professor of Finance, Simon Fraser University, Canada

About this edition

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 184542381X
• ISBN 13: 9781845423810
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Poitras Geoffrey