Spring 2005

Download Featured Article: Alexander Hamilton and the Birth of a Captial Market

By Robert E. Wright

Also in this Issue:

  • The Rise and Fall of the Glass-Steagall Act: The Demise of the Act that Defined Banking Since 1933, by Scott B. MacDonald
  • The Fight Against Counterfeiting: A brief history of Counterfeiting in the U.S., from Colonial Notes to Today's Modern Money, by Tamar Anolic
  • A Long View of the Capital Markets: Identifying the Major Differences Between Modern and Historic Markets, by William J. Bernstein.
  • Oliver Pollock: Forgotten Financier of the American Revolution, by Russell Roberts
  • A Pathway to Peace: Corn Sales to the Soviets, by Bruce Weitzman
  • Educators' Perspective: The Flu Pandemic, the Flow of Information and the Financial Markets of 1918, by Brian Grinder and Dan Cooper
  • Book Review: An Empire of Wealth, by John Steele Gordon

Summer 2025

Financial History, Issue 154

In this issue:

  • "IPOs on Tap," by Jason E. Taylor and Robert E. Wright
  • "A Hollow Triumph? The Business History of US Healthcare," by Gregory DL Morris
  • "The Weinbergs of Goldman Sachs and the Making of the Modern Corporate Board," by Lawrence A. Cunningham

and more...