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Finance Masters

by Olivier Coispeau · 2016

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This book is a short economic history of International Financial Centers (IFC) in the last Millenium, from the first medieval international fairs to contemporary IFCs. It explains how finance practices developped from humble debut in the last millenium accross geographies. The book reviews the key ingredients for success and sometimes failure of these truly extraordinary professionals who changed the world. The book has been written for a large international audience.

Subject
businessbusinessMore like thisLess of thishistoryhistoryMore like thisLess of this
Themes
moralitymoralityMore like thisLess of this
Setting
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Audience
adult
Length
medium · 339 pages

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