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Paul Greatbatch and Tom Elliot

A Short History of Money, Banking and Credit – Parts 1 and 2

Winter Weekend 2016, 

A two-part interactive course exploring finance. Beginning with sea shells in ancient Mesopotamia, this journey is via gold, Chinese paper money, medieval Italian banks, rise of the City of London, the global financial crisis – and finally Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies. Greatbatch and Elliot are leading investment and equity specialists who also lecture in economics at King’s College London.