Contributions prior to Irving Fisher

著者

• Poitras, Geoffrey

書誌事項

Contributions prior to Irving Fisher

edited by Geoffrey Poitras

（Pioneers of financial economics, v. 1）

E. Elgar, c2006

注記

Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

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.

目次

Contents: Introduction Geoffrey Poitras PART I: THE HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL BACKGROUND 1. Commercial Arithmetic, Theology and the Intellectual Foundations of Jacob Bernoulli's Art of Conjecturing Edith Dudley Sylla 2. Issac Le Maire and the Early Trading in Dutch East India Company Shares J.G. van Dillen, Geoffrey Poitras and Asha Majithia 3. Joseph de la Vega and the Confusion de Confusiones Jose Luis Cardoso PART II: EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY CONTRIBUTIONS 4. Life Annuity Valuation: From de Witt and Halley to de Moivre and Simpson Geoffrey Poitras 5. John Law: Financial Innovator Antoin E. Murphy 6. Duvillard's Researche sur les Rentes (1787) and the Modified Internal Rate of Return: A Comparative Analysis Yuri Biondi, translated by Jeff d'Avignon and Geoffrey Poitras PART III: THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY 'SCIENCE OF FINANCIAL INVESTMENTS' 7. Rational Investors, Informative Prices: The Emergence of the 'Science of Financial Investments' and the Random Walk Hypothesis Alex Preda 8. Economic Instruments and Theory in the Construction of Henri Lefevre's 'Science of the Stock Market' Franck Jovanovic 9. A Nineteenth-Century Random Walk: Jules Regnault and the Origins of Scientific Financial Economics Franck Jovanovic PART IV: EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY CONTRIBUTIONS 10. Louis Bachelier Robert W. Dimand and Hichem Ben-El Mechaiekh 11. Vincenz Bronzin's Option Pricing Theory: Contents, Contribution and Background Heinz Zimmermann and Wolfgang Hafner Index

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA7852547X
• ISBN:
  • 184542381X
• LCCN: 2005049498
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Cheltenham
• ページ数/冊数: x, 274 p.
• 大きさ: 25 cm
• 親書誌ID:
  • BA78525469