Author : William N. Goetzmann

William N. Goetzmann is a leading American financial historian. He is the Edwin J. Beinecke Professor of Finance and Management Studies and Faculty Director of the International Center for Finance at Yale University. His father, being an archaeology and history professor at Yale, gave Goetzmann the opportunity to grow upon Yale’s campus, surrounded by the intense academic atmosphere. This inspired Goetzmann to go on to have a stunning financial career, becoming the president of both the Western and European Finance Associations as well as a research associate for the National Bureau of Economic Research. Throughout this time, he studied, in depth, the financial history of several countries. For the past twenty years he has focused on the comparison between European and Chinese financial development and innovation. He gives us an in depth summary of eastern economics in a world dominated by western financial ideology. With this book, Goetzmann invites us to consider the unique and powerful insights found in the east and how they may affect modern economic policy.