Cover art for Atlas of Finance
Published
Yale University Press, September 2024
ISBN
9780300253054
Format
Hardcover, 240 pages
Dimensions
27.9cm × 21.6cm

Atlas of Finance Mapping the Global Story of Money

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A unique illustrated exploration of the development of finance that combines data from every part of the world and covers five thousand years of history

From the emergence of money in the ancient world to today's interconnected landscape of high-frequency trading and cryptocurrency, the story of finance has always taken place on an international stage. Finance is one of the most globalized and networked of human activities, and one of the most important social technologies ever invented.

This volume, the first visually based book dedicated to finance, uses graphics and maps to bring the complex and abstract world of finance down to earth, showing how geography is fundamental for understanding finance, and vice versa. It illuminates the people-including Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes-who have shaped our thinking about global finance; brings to life the ways that place-specific histories, laws, regulations, and institutions influence finance; shows how finance relates to innovation, globalization, and environmental change; and details how finance plays a key part in drawing the landscape of uneven development, inequality, and instability.

The Atlas of Finance, with word and image, will change the way you view both your money and your world.

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