Origins of ValueA Virtual Museum of Financial History
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The Birth of the Stock Market

The Dutch East India Company and the origins of equity finance in 17th-century Amsterdam — the world’s first publicly traded company and the market it created.

6 DOCUMENTS · c. 1373–1822 · NETHERLANDS, FRANCE, BELGIUM
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Women as Investors

A hidden history of capital: nine documents that trace women’s participation in financial markets from 18th-century Paris to early-twentieth-century America.

9 DOCUMENTS · 1745–1910 · FRANCE, NETHERLANDS, UK, USA
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Financing War

How governments borrowed to fight: six documents tracing war finance from the American Revolution to the Second World War — and the promises they kept and broke.

6 DOCUMENTS · 1776–1942 · USA, RUSSIA, AUSTRIA, JAPAN