Finance and writing -- Finance and urbanism -- Financial architecture -- Mesopotamian twilight -- Athenian finance -- Monetary revolution -- Roman finance -- China's first financial world -- Unity and bureaucracy -- Financial divergence -- The temple and finance -- Venice -- Fibonacci and finance -- Immortal bonds -- The discovery of chance -- Efficient markets -- Europe, Inc. -- Corporations and exploration -- A projecting age -- A bubble in France -- According to Hoyle -- Securitization and debt -- Marx and markets -- China's financiers -- The Russian bear -- Keynes to the rescue -- The new financial world -- Re-engineering the future -- Post-war theory.

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