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Chapter 1 Commercial Arithmetic, Theology and the Intellectual Foundations of Jacob Bernoulli’s
‘Art of Conjecturing’
Edith Sylla, Department of History, North Carolina State University,161 Harrelson Hall, Campus Box
8108, Raleigh, NC 27695-8108 (edith_sylla@ncsu.edu)
Chapter 2 Isaac Le Maire and Early Share Trading in the Dutch East India Company
J.G. van Dillen, University of Utrecht; Asha Majithia and Geoffrey Poitras, Faculty of Business
Administration, Simon Fraser University (poitras@sfu.ca)
Chapter 8 Economic Instruments and Theory in the Construction of Henri Lefevre’s “Science of
the Stock Market”
Franck Jovanovic, Department of Economics, Glendon College, York University, 2275 Bayview
Avenue, Toronto, Ont., Canada, M4N 3M6
Chapter 9 The Emergence of the Random Walk Hypothesis and the Nineteenth-Century “Science
of Financial Investments”
Alex Preda, Department of Sociology, School of Social and Political Studies, Adam Ferguson
Building, George Square, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, EH8 9LL
(a.preda@ed.ac.uk)