Winter 2009

Download Featured Article: Probability, Gambling and the Origins of Risk Management

By Brian Grinder and Dan Cooper

Also in this Issue:

  • 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

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...