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Financial Markets

1The Invention of Money 2The Birth of Banking 3The First Securities Markets 4Bubbles, Manias, and Crashes 5Central Banking and the Lender of Last Resort 6The Bond Market and Sovereign Debt 7When Great Powers Default 8Foreign Exchange and Currency Systems 9The Corporation as Legal Technology 10Private vs. Public Markets 11Asset Classes and Portfolio Theory 12Credit Cycles and Financial Instability 13Arbitrage, Efficiency, and Market Structure 14The Future of Finance 15Environmental Economics: Pricing the Priceless 16Case Study: Who Owns the Conversation?17Case Study: The Century Bond and the Three-Year GPU

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