Financial History, Issue 93

Winter 2009

Probability, Gambling and the Origins of Risk Management

By Brian Grinder and Dan Cooper

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President Abraham Lincoln, Investor, by Franklin Knoll

A Clerk's Tale, by Jane Kamensky

What Can History Tell Us About the Crisis in Mortgage Securitization?, by Kenneth Snowden

Hicks Nurseries and the Rise of Retail Horticulture, by Gregory DL Morris

Keogh Plans: Precursor to the Retirement Revolution, by Matthew P. Fink

Industry Responds to Three Mile Island, by Bruce Weitzman

Book Review: The Ascent of Money by Niall Ferguson. Reviewed by Gregory DL Morris

Book Review: Mr. Market Miscalculates by James Grant. Reviewed by Gregory DL Morris

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