The early scientific literature which developed with the emergence of organized speculation on financial and commodity markets in the second half of the nineteenth century built on the identification of several categories of traders, from professional and amateur speculators to rentiers and...

The idea that speculation exacerbates commodity and stock price volatility dates back at least from the second half of the nineteenth century when an extensive literature emerged to which Marshall contributed. The essence of his arguments, originally applied to commodities and subsequently...

This book examines financial markets from a historical perspective. Bringing together contributions from leading historians of economic thought, economists and economic historians, it offers an integrated approach and reflects on the workings of financial markets, their impact on and relation...