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Education

The Amalgamated Copper Company IPO: Beginning of a New Era (64) Brian Grinder & Dan Cooper.

Bucket Shops on the Internet? (68) Dan Cooper & Brian Grinder. Educators’ Perspective.

Dartmouth vs. Woodward: The Case for the Corporation (74) Brian Grinder & Dan Cooper.

Depreciation Goes to War: The Political Genius of FDR at Work (57) Brian Grinder and Dan Cooper. President Roosevelt’s support of the Tax Amortization Act drew much criticism, but inevitably he was praised for preparing the country for war.

Emancipation: A Time Value of Money Problem? (73) Dan Cooper & Brian Grinder.

The Empire State Building: Construction Marvel - Financial Disaster (65) Dan Cooper & Brian Grinder.

The Flu Pandemic, the Flow of Information, and the Financial Markets of 1918 (83) Brian Grinder & Dan Cooper.

Goldman Sachs, Sears Roebuck, and the Revolution in Firm Valuation (67) Brian Grinder and Dan Cooper.

The Independent Audit: A 100 Quest (77) Dan Cooper & Brian Grinder.

Is the Next Jay Gould in My Classroom? (85)  Brian Grinder & Dan Cooper.

Jim Hill Buys a Railroad (70) Brian Grinder and Dan Cooper.The Panic of 1907 and the Wall Street Rag: Art Imitates Life (59) Brian Grinder and Dan Cooper. Discusses the Panic of 1907 and Joplin’s rendition of it in his song entitled “Wall Street Rag.”

On the Trail with Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Discovery: 200 Years Later (84) Brian Grinder & Dan Cooper.

Overcoming Resistance to Life Insurance in the 19th Century (82) Brian Grinder & Dan Cooper.

Preferred Stock: The Financial Innovation that Saved the Railroads (58) Brian Grinder and Dan Cooper. Caught in a tight situation, England and the U.S. begin using preferred stock to raise capital. A discussion of preferred stock’s evolution follows.

The Remantling of Standard Oil: Implications for the Next Century (66) Dan Cooper and Brian Grinder.

Richard Grasso, Nathan Prime, and Stock Exchange Transformation (80) Brian Grinder and Dan Cooper.

Teaching Modern Finance Through Financial History (55) Brian Grinder and Dan Cooper. Two professors of finance advocate the value of financial history in the classroom, using the examples of Nathan Mayer Rothschild, the Battle of Waterloo, and the value of information.

Thomas Hancock: Wealth-Builder for the Revolution (72) Brian Grinder & Dan Cooper.

A Tribute to Modigliani and Miller (81) Brian Grinder and Dan Cooper.

Wall Street (Gulp!) Advertises (75) Dan Cooper and Brian Grinder.

Will the Recording Industry Turn a Deaf Ear...Again? (76) Brian Grinder & Dan Cooper.

Women on Wall Street: An Historical Perspective (79) Dan Cooper & Brian Grinder. Educators’ Perspective.

Yet Another Transcontinental Railroad (69) Dan Cooper and Brian Grinder. Jim Hill builds the Great Northern.