The History of Corporate Finance: Developments of Anglo-American Securities Markets, Financial Practices, Theories and Laws

Robert E Wright is at the Stern School of Business, New York University. He is Editor of History of Corporate Finance (Pickering & Chatto 2002) and author of titles including Financing American Economic Growth: The Philadelphia Story (forthcoming) and The Wealth of Nations Rediscovered: Integration and Expansion in American Financial Markets, 1780-1850 (2002) Richard Sylla is at the Stern School of Business, New York University, and is the author of History of Interest Rates (1991)

Volume 1: Development of Securities Markets South Sea Company, Pursuant to the Direction in Her Majestys Commission (1711); Thomas Fortune, An Epitome of the Stocks and Publick Funds (1796); Thomas Fortune and D. Morier Evans, Fortune's Epitome of the Stocks & Public Funds, English, Foreign & American (1850); Robert Lucas Nash, A Short Enquiry Into the Profitable Nature of Our Investments (1881) Volume 2: Public Policy Charles Fenn and Robert Lucas Nash, Fenn's Compendium of the English and Foreign Funds, Debts and Revenues of All Nations (1893); [Thomas Papillion], The-East-India Trade: A Most Profitable Trade to the Kingdom (1677); [John Pollexfen], A Discourse of Trade, Coyn and Paper Credit (1697); The American Jurist, 'Manufacturing Corporations' (1829); William Hawes, Observations on Limited and Unlimited Liability (1854) Volume 3: Limited Liability David Gibbons, The Limited Liability Act. To Which are Added, The Joint Stock Companies Acts (1858-9); Loftus Fitz-Wygram, Limited Liability Made Practical. Reduction of Capital of Companies and the Subdivision of Shares (1867); [John Playford], Vade Mecum, Or the Necessary Pocket Companion (1679) Volume 4: Corporate Finance in Practice [George Rae], The Internal Management of a Country Bank: In a Series of Letters (1850); Robert Arthur Ward, A Treatise on Investments: Being a Popular Exposition of the Advantages and Disadvantages of Each Kind of Investment (1852) Volume 5: Corporate Finance in Theory John Laing, The Theory of Business for Busy Men (1868); Arthur Crump, The Theory of Stock Exchange Speculation (1874) Volume 6: Corporate Finance in Theory (cont.) Arthur Ellis, The Rationale of Market Fluctuations (1879); Thomas L Greene, Corporation Finance: A Study (1898); Alfred Marshall, Industry and Trade: A Study of Industrial Technique and Business Organization