Title: Introduction: History and the Modern Theory of Finance
Abstract: History and statistics have long been thought of as vital adjuncts in scholarly efforts to further the understanding of economics and allied fields such as corporate finance. In his classic work, The Scope and Method of Political Economy (1890), John Neville Keynes, for example, characterized the nature of the relationship between these two specializations as essentially complementary. Inherent in this view was the belief that economic understanding could be brought into sharpest focus only by blending the unique perspectives afforded by each discipline, like the images cast by the separate lenses of a stereoscope.
Publication Year: 1997
Publication Date: 1997-02-28
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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