Winter 2009

Download Featured Article: Probability, Gambling and the Origins of Risk Management

By Brian Grinder and Dan Cooper

Also in this Issue:

  • President Abraham Lincoln, Investor, by Franklin Knoll
  • A Clerk's Tale, by Jane Kamensky
  • What Can History Tell Us About the Crisis in Mortgage Securitization?, by Kenneth Snowden
  • Hicks Nurseries and the Rise of Retail Horticulture, by Gregory DL Morris
  • Keogh Plans: Precursor to the Retirement Revolution, by Matthew P. Fink
  • Industry Responds to Three Mile Island, by Bruce Weitzman
  • Book Review: The Ascent of Money by Niall Ferguson. Reviewed by Gregory DL Morris
  • Book Review: Mr. Market Miscalculates by James Grant. Reviewed by Gregory DL Morris

Fall 2025

Financial History, Issue 155

In this issue:

  • "Private Finance, Public Power," by Peter Conti-Brown and Sean H. Vanatta
  • "Cracked Foundations: School Bonds in Levittown, NY," by Michael Glass
  • "Offshore Drilling in the Gulf of Mexico," by Michael A. Martorelli

and more...