How Finance Enabled Civilization

25/10/2022 57 min
How Finance Enabled Civilization

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Episode Synopsis

Yale School of Management professor William N. Goetzmann joins Allison Schrager to discuss the history of financial innovation, the role of markets in Athens, Sumeria, and Rome, and the democratization of risk-taking. His latest book is Money Changes Everything: How Finance Made Civilization Possible.