William Goetzmann

William Goetzmann is a professor at the Yale School of Management and the author of Money Changes Everything: How Finance Made Civilization Possible.

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Was the Invention of Finance Responsible for Democracy?

The ancient city of Athens paid its citizens for various civic duties, priming them into a mindset that paved the way to participatory government.
- William Goetzmann
- May 26, 2016