Download or read book The Early History of Financial Economics, 1478-1776 written by Geoffrey Poitras and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poitras (finance, Simon Fraser University) provides an account of the early development of financial economics and presents a foundation for the study of modern financial economics. The book chronicles the development of early financial economics, from the appearance of the first printed commercial arithmetic in 1478 to the publication of The Wealth of Nations in 1776. The origins of the subject are traced back to the commercial arithmetic of the Renaissance reckoning schools. The contributions of de Moivre, Halley, and Stevin are also discussed. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR