The early history of financial economics, 1478 - 1776: from commercial arithmetic to life annuities and joint stocks
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adam_text | The Early History of
Financial Economics,
1478-1776
From Commercial Arithmetic to
Life Annuities and Joint Stocks
Geoffrey Poitras
Professor of Finance
Simon Fraser University, Canada
Edward Elgar
Cheltenham, UK • Northampton, MA, USA
Contents
List of Figures ix
List of Tables x
1 Introduction 1
Overview; Scope of the Investigation; Some Introductory Pedagogy;
Outline of the Presentation; Beware of Ethno-Centrism and Other
Sources of Bias?; Notes
2 History of Commerce and Finance 22
Developments Prior to 1478; The Reckoning Schools; Social Attitudes
Toward Business; The Census; The Venetian Prestiti; Societas and the
Triple Contract; The Bill of Exchange; Lombards, Jews and
PawnbroMng; The Emergence of the Early Bourses; The Evolution of
Financial Securities; Life Annuities and Tontines; Joint Stock
Companies; Private Credit Markets in the 18th Century; Other 18th
Century Contributions; Appendix: Selected Life Annuity Price Series
and Issue Sizes; Notes
3 The Scholastic Analysis of Usury and Other Subjects 74
Scholastics and Merchants; Ancient Doctrines on Interest Payments;
Scholastic Economics; Types of Law; Doctrine on Usury; Doctrine on
Exchange and Census; Doctrine on Gambling and Risk; The Evolution
of Scholastic Doctrine; Opinion on the Scholastic Usury Doctrine in the
18th Century; Keynes on Usury; Appendix: Merchant of Venice ,
William Shakespeare (1600); Notes
4 The Evolution of Commercial Arithmetic 113
Commercial Arithmetic and Commercial Education; The Treviso
Arithmetic; Pacioli and the Summa,* Plagiarism; Chuquet and the
Triparty; Progress of Commercial Arithmetic; Simon Stevin and Leiden;
Commercial Arithmetic and the Ready Reckoner; Commercial
Arithmetic, Accounting and Merchant Education; 18th Century
vi Contents
Theoretical Developments; Appendix: Selected Compound Interest
Tables; Notes
5 Simple Interest and Compound Interest 143
Basic Interest Concepts; Methods of Fixed Income Valuation; Origins
of Some Mathematical Tools; Simple Interest in Partnerships;
Compound Interest; The Development of Commercial Arithmetic; The
Forgotten Work of Richard Witt; Mafynes on Compound Interest;
Compound Interest Calculations in the 18th Century; Reflections on the
Historical Development of Compound Interest; Appendix: Life Annuity
and Other Tables from Price (1772); Notes
6 The Valuation of Life Annuities 187
Origins of Life Annuities; The Genesis of Modern Contingent Claims
Pricing; Graunt and Halley; The Life of Edmond Halley; The
Contributions of Abraham de Moivre; Contributions after de Moivre; De
Witt s Calculation of Life Annuities; Calculations of Halley and de
Moivre; Valuation of Tontines; Bernoulli s Problem; A Note on the
Bernoullis; Appendix: Excerpts from Valuation of Life Annuities , de
Witt (1671); Notes
7 Foreign Exchange and the Bill Market 228
The Bill of Exchange; Early Bourses and the Bill Market; Dry Exchange
and Fictitious Exchange; Gresham on Foreign Exchange; The Rudiments
of Early Mercantilism; Arbitrage in the Bill Market?; Possible Arbitrage
Transactions; An Early Example of Technical Analysis ?; Negotiable and
Inland Bills; Cantillon on Speculation in Bills; Adam Smith and the Bill
Market; Appendix: Some Common Monetary Units; Notes
8 The Analysis of Joint Stocks 267
The Evolution of Joint Stocks; The Dutch East India Company; The
Emergence of Markets for Trading in Shares; Isaac le Moire and the
First Market Manipulation in Stocks; Early Stock Trading in London;
Brokers and Stockjobbers; The English Coffeehouses; John Law: The
Great Projector; The Mississippi Scheme; The South Sea Bubble;
Analysis of Trade and Pricing for Joint Stock Companies; Adam Smith
Contents vii
on Stockjobbing; Views on Corporate Finance; Appendix: Selected Stock
Price and Dividend Series; Notes
9 Development of Derivative Securities 33S
What are Derivative Securities?; The Earliest Markets; Antwerp,
Amsterdam and London; De la Vega on Stock Option Trading in
Amsterdam; Houghton on London Option Trading; The South Sea
Bubble and Barnard s Act; The Pricing of Futures and Options
Contracts; Put-Call Parity Conditions; The Japanese Rice Market;
Appendix: English Translation oflea d Actions en HoUande, de Pinto
(1771); Notes
10 Manias, Manipulations and Institutional Failures 382
The Modern View of Security Markets; Joseph de la Vega on Market
Manipulation; Other Accounts of Market Manipulation; Tulipmania: The
Historical Context; Tulipmania: The Modern View; Cantillon on Manias
and Manipulation; The Joint Stock Bubbles; Manipulation, Mania or
Institutional Failure?; Appendix: The Bubble , Jonathan Swift (1721);
Notes
11 English Debates over Interest Rates and Public Credit 418
What Interest Rate Theories?; The Mercantilist Contributions; Keynes
on Mercantilist Interest Theories; Cantillon and the Loanable Funds
Theory; Further Debates on Legal Maximum Interest Rates; Adam Smith
and the Financial Revolution; The Sinking Fund Debate; Who was
Richard Price?; Opinions on the Sinking Fund; Appendix: British and
Dutch Interest Rates, 17th-18th Centuries; Notes
12 Maritime Insurance, Life Insurance and Other Subjects 449
Origins of Maritime Insurance; Development of the English Maritime
Insurance Market; Lloyd s of London; The Development of Life
Insurance; The Contribution of James Dodson; Richard Price, Life
Assurance and the Equitable; The Origin of Old Age Pension Plans; The
Development of Other Types of Insurance; Appendix: The Francis
(1853) List of South Sea Bubble Era Assurance Schemes; Notes
WM Contents
13 Some Speculative Conclusions 481
The Origins of Economics; The Origins of Financial Economics; Who
are the Founders of Financial Economics?; Some Speculative
Conclusions; Notes
Bibliographic Notes 495
References SOI
Index S17
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