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According to Wikipedia, Richard Eugene Sylla is the chairman of the board of trustees of the Museum of American Finance. Before his retirement in 2015, he served as the Henry Kaufman Professor of the History of Financial Institutions and Markets and a professor of economics, entrepreneurship, and innovation at New York University Stern School of Business, where he taught courses in financial history, economic and business history of the United States, and comparative enterprise systems. Professor Sylla also taught for the TRIUM Global Executive MBA Program alliance of NYU Stern, the London School of Economics and HEC School of Management, and served as academic director of executive programs at NYU Stern.

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Financial Systems, Economic Growth, and Globalization (2001) (306)
Federal Policy, Banking Market Structure, and Capital Mobilization in the United States, 1863–1913 (1969) (196)
Emerging Financial Markets and Early U.S. Growth (1999) (181)
An Historical Primer on the Business of Credit Rating (2002) (157)
Money and Capital Markets in Postbellum America (1979) (152)
FINANCIAL SYSTEMS AND ECONOMIC MODERNIZATION (2002) (125)
Banks and State Public Finance in the New Republic: The United States, 1790–1860 (1987) (113)
Emerging financial markets and early US growth (2004) (107)
The State, the Financial System and Economic Modernization (1999) (107)
Patterns of European Industrialization: The Nineteenth Century (1991) (95)
U.S. securities markets and the banking system, 1790-1840 (1998) (74)
Anglo-American financial systems : institutions and markets in the twentieth century (1995) (72)
Central banks' independence in historical perspective (1988) (71)
The role of banks (1992) (63)
Monetary Innovation in America (1982) (49)
Forgotten Men of Money: Private Bankers in Early U.S. History (1976) (46)
The American capital market, 1846-1914 : a study of the effects of public policy on economic development (1970) (46)
Schumpeter Redux: A Review of Raghuram G. Rajan and Luigi Zingales's Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists (2006) (45)
The Global Impact of the Internet: Widening the Economic Gap Between Wealthy and Poor Nations? (2003) (45)
Alexander Hamilton, Central Banker: Crisis Management during the U.S. Financial Panic of 1792 (2009) (44)
The Interaction of Taxation and Regulation in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Banking (1994) (43)
Sovereign Debt and Repudiation: The Emerging-Market Debt Crisis in the U.S. States, 1839-1843 (2004) (39)
Integration of Trans-Atlantic Capital Markets, 1790–1845 (2006) (35)
Emerging Markets in History:the United States,Japan,and Argentina (1999) (31)
Founding Choices: American Economic Policy in the 1790s (2010) (30)
Financial revolutions and economic growth: Introducing this EEH symposium (2006) (30)
Slow train to paradise : how Dutch investment helped build American railroads (1997) (26)
Debt, Default, and Revenue Structure: The American State Debt Crisis in the Early 1840s (1997) (26)
International Capital Markets and American Economic Growth. (1995) (25)
The evolution of the American economy (1979) (25)
The American Corporation (2013) (22)
Financial Foundations: Public Credit, the National Bank, and Securities Markets (2010) (22)
How Important Historically Were Financial Systems for Growth in the U.K., U.S., Germany, and Japan? (2010) (21)
U.S. City Finances and the Growth of Government, 1850–1902 (1988) (20)
The anatomy of sovereign debt crises: Lessons from the American state defaults of the 1840s (1998) (20)
American banking and growth in the nineteenth century: A partial view of the terrain (1971) (19)
Experimental Federalism: the Economics of American Government, 1789–1914 (2000) (18)
British Investment in American Railways, 1834-1898 (1970) (18)
Corporation formation in the antebellum United States in comparative context (2013) (18)
Financial systems, risk management, and entrepreneurship: historical perspectives (2003) (17)
The rise of securities markets : what can government do? (1999) (16)
Political Economy of Financial Development: Canada and the United States in the Mirror of the Other, 1790–1840 (2006) (15)
Calculated Values: Finance, Politics, and the Quantitative Age (2019) (15)
The transition to a monetary union in the United States, 1787–1795 (2006) (14)
Sinking funds as credible commitments: Two centuries of US national-debt experience (1999) (11)
The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act: Accomplishments and Limitations (2011) (11)
Corporate Governance and Stockholder/Stakeholder Activism in the United States, 1790–1860: New Data and Perspectives (2011) (11)
The Origins and Development of Financial Markets and Institutions: Comparing the UK and US financial systems, 1790–1830 (2009) (9)
Prologue: A Bird's‐Eye View: The Dodd‐Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (2011) (8)
Introduction: patterns of European industrialization during the nineteenth century (1992) (8)
Reversing Financial Reversals: Government and the Financial System since 1789 (2007) (8)
The progressive era and the political economy of big government (1991) (7)
3 The Political Economy of Early U.S. Financial Development (2007) (7)
A Concise History of International Finance: From Babylon to Bernanke. By Larry Neal. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xiv + 361 pp. Tables, figures, references, index. Paper, $29.99. ISBN: 978-1-107-62121-3 (2016) (7)
Investing in Life: Insurance in Antebellum America (2011) (5)
Networks and History ’ s Generalizations : Comparing the Financial Systems of Germany , Japan , Great Britain , and the United States of America (2004) (5)
Finance and Capital in the United States, 1850–1900 (1967) (5)
Early US Struggles with Fiscal Federalism: Lessons for Europe? (2014) (5)
Financial Disturbances and Depressions: The View from Economic History (1991) (5)
Financial Systems and Economic Modernization: A New Historical Perspective? (2001) (5)
Long-Term Trends in State and Local Finance: Sources and Uses of Funds in North Carolina, 1800-1977 (1986) (4)
The New Media Boom in Historical Perspective (2001) (4)
CHAPTER TWO U.S. Financial Markets and Long-Term Economic Growth, 1790-1989 (1994) (4)
Historical Economics: U.S. State and Local Government (1995) (3)
Chairman of the Fed: William McChesney Martin, Jr., and the Creation of the Modern Federal Reserve System (review) (2006) (3)
Political Economy of Supplying Money to a Growing Economy: Monetary Regimes and the Search for an Anchor to Stabilize the Value of Money (2010) (3)
Bank of New York Mellon (2015) (3)
Computers and Commerce: A Study of Technology and Management at Eckert-Mauchly Computer Company, Engineering Research Associates, and Remington Rand, 1946-1957 (review) (2006) (3)
The Power of Central Banks and the Future of the Federal Reserve System (2011) (3)
A Short Inquiry into the Profitable Nature of Our Investments (2008) (3)
New York City Mutual Savings Banks, 1819-61. (1977) (3)
10. Small-Business Banking in the United States, 1780–1920 (1980) (2)
Comments on "Is recovery of Asian markets sustainable?" (2001) (2)
Chapter 2. The Autonomy of Monetary Authorities: The Case of the U.S. Federal Reserve System (1988) (2)
"... the patent in contemplation will be the most lucrative that ever was obtained": Robert Fulton to [Robert R. Livingston] on the Profit Potential of Steamboat Navigation in the Early Nineteenth Century (2005) (2)
M&T Bank (2015) (2)
Corporate finance in practice (2003) (2)
Finance and Financiers in European History, 1880–1960. Edited by Youssef Cassis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. xv, 445. $59.50 (1992) (2)
Genealogy of American Finance (2015) (2)
Three Centuries of Finance and Monetary Control in america (1995) (2)
Transferring Wealth and Power from the Old to the New World: The United States: Financial Innovation and Adaptation (2001) (2)
DO MARKETS REWARD CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM ? LESSONS FROM AMERICA ’ S STATE DEBT CRISIS (2014) (2)
The Decline of Authority: Public Economic Policy and Political Development in New York State, 1800–1860 . By L. Ray Gunn. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988. Pp. xiii, 284. $29.95. (1989) (1)
Investing: The Stock Exchange (2020) (1)
Hamilton and the U.S. Financial Revolution (2019) (1)
The 1930s Financial Reforms in Historical Perspective (1996) (1)
The Hidden Cost of Economic Development: The Biological Standard of Living in Antebellum Pennsylvania (review) (2006) (1)
Fifth Third Bancorp (2015) (1)
Principal Financial Group (2015) (1)
The First Crash: Lessons from the South Sea Bubble . By Richard Dale. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. viii + 198 pp. Illustrations, tables, glossary, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 0-691-11971-6. (2005) (1)
Finance, Intermediaries, and Economic Development: Integration of U.S. Capital Markets: Southern Stock Markets and the Case of New Orleans, 1871–1913 (2003) (1)
The Railway Dilemma (2020) (1)
What we can Learn from the Swedish Financial Revolution: An International Comparison (2010) (1)
The Bank of the State of South Carolina: A General and Political History@@@Investment Banking in America: A History@@@A Financial History of the United States (1972) (1)
PNC Financial Services (2015) (1)
Wall Street Transitions, 1880–1920: From National to World Financial Centre (2011) (1)
New York Community Bancorp (2015) (1)
Chandler on High Technology Industries from the 1880s to the 1990s: A Comment (2006) (1)
The History of Corporate Finance: Developments of Anglo-American Securities Markets, Financial Practices, Theories and Laws (2003) (1)
Page Conversions (2020) (0)
The Rates of Post-Letters, Both Inland and Outland, Established Anno XII. Car. II. Regis. With The Times for fending and receiving them: And also the Post-Stages (2022) (0)
The Rates or Fares of Water-Men. (2022) (0)
Public Policy Toward Corporation Profits (2020) (0)
Baking Funds and Capital 1 (2020) (0)
People’s United Financial (2015) (0)
First Draft : July 2000 This Draft : June 2001 The Great Reversals : The Politics of Financial Development in the 20 th Century 1 Raghuram (2000) (0)
Markets Genebally, Their Nature and Use, Considebed (2020) (0)
Bonds and Stocks (2020) (0)
Front Matter (“Table of Contents”, “Acknowledgments”) (2010) (0)
Agriculture, 1 Manufacture, and Commerce (2020) (0)
George Feifer. Breaking Open Japan: Commodore Perry, Lord Abe, and American Imperialism in 1853 (2007) (0)
Scottish Banking: A History, 1695-1973. By S. G. Checkland. Glasgow and London: Collins, 1975. Pp. xxvi, 785. £8.25 (1976) (0)
The Rise of Merchant Banking. By Stanley Chapman. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1984. Pp. xi, 224. $27.50 (1987) (0)
Reduction of Weights and Measures (2022) (0)
Development of securities markets (2003) (0)
Anglo-American Securities Regulation--Cultural and Political Roots, 1690-1860 (review) (2000) (0)
Santander Holdings USA (2015) (0)
Surviving Large Losses: Financial Crises, the Middle Class, and the Development of Capital Markets. By Philip T. Hoffman, Gilles Postel-Vinay, and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal. Cambridge and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. 11, 263. $27.95 (2008) (0)
Profit (2020) (0)
Charles P. Kindleberger, Reluctant Yet Seminal Historian (2005) (0)
RBS-Citizens Financial (2015) (0)
New York (2018) (0)
The Short “Turns,” or, Who Makes the Profits? (2020) (0)
Banks as Multinationals. Edited by Geoffrey Jones · New York: Routledge, 1990. xii + 301 pp. Tables, notes, and index. $74.00. ISBN 0-415-04245-3 (1992) (0)
Stocks and Other Public Securities (2020) (0)
Fortune’s Epitome of the Stocks & Public Funds, English, Foreign & American (Excerpts) (2020) (0)
Pressure, Crisis, Panic (2020) (0)
Imports and Exports (2020) (0)
The Right Temperament for a Professional Speculator (2020) (0)
Wages and Salaries (2020) (0)
A Guide to the Historical Records of British Banking. By L. S. Pressnell and John Orbell. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. Pp. xxv, 130. $29.95 (1986) (0)
Growth, and Globalization (2003) (0)
Forms of Corporate Enterprise (2020) (0)
John Deere Capital (2015) (0)
A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World. By Gregory Clark. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. xii + 420. Index, notes, bibliography, figures, tables. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978–0–691–12135–2. (2008) (0)
The Heart of the Declaration: The Founders' Case for an Activist Government. By Steve Pincus. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2016. Pp. ix + 207. $26.00, hardcover. (2017) (0)
The Dank of England (2020) (0)
Tables for The Forbearance, Discompt, and Purchase of Annuities, por 1, 3,5, 7, 10, 14, 20, and 21 Years, at 6 per Cent. Compound Interest. (2022) (0)
The Regulation and Reform of the American Banking System, 1900–1929. By Eugene Nelson White. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1983. Pp. xiv + 251. $25.00 (1983) (0)
The Uses op Money; Its Value; Mint Price; The Value of Gold (2020) (0)
The Increase of Speculation in Stocks and Shares (2020) (0)
A Table for The ready Calling up any Number OF Nobles and Marks, From One to Five Thousand (2022) (0)
Economic Theory and Doctrine (1986) (0)
The Significance of the Founding Choices: Editors' Introduction (2010) (0)
Manufactures (2020) (0)
The Limited Liability Act (2022) (0)
Utrecht-America Holdings (2015) (0)
Book Review:Money and American Society, 1865-1880 Walter K. Nugent (1969) (0)
Breaking Open Japan: Commodore Perry, Lord Abe, and American Imperialism in 1853 (review) (2008) (0)
Speculation By Machinery (2020) (0)
Outside Criticism on the Causes of Disturbance in the Money Market (2020) (0)
The Pit-Falls (2020) (0)
The History of Corporate Finance: Developments of Anglo-American Securities Markets, Financial Practices, Theories and Laws Vol 2 (2020) (0)
Comments on “Marx, economies of scale, and the falling rate of profit” by T. Negishi (1998) (0)
Capital One Financial (2015) (0)
General Electric Capital (2015) (0)
Introduction: A Brief History of Banking in America (2015) (0)
Overview of the Big 50 (2015) (0)
Railway Bonds (2020) (0)
Preface (2020) (0)
A Table for The ready Casting up any Number of Farthings, Half-pence, Pence, or Shillings; where may be found by Inspection what the Great Hundred comes to, at any Rate the Pound, from One Farthing to Tea Shillings. (2022) (0)
Chapter 15 – Alexander Hamilton (2013) (0)
From Slave South to New South: Public Policy in Nineteenth-Century Georgia. By Peter Wallenstein. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987. Pp. xii, 284. $27.50 (1988) (0)
UNITED STATES AND CANADA U.S. Bank Deregulation in Historical Perspective. By Charles W. Calomiris. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xxxii, 359. $54.95. (2001) (0)
The General Influences Bearing on All Markets (2020) (0)
Organised Markets (2020) (0)
Business Organization: Its Financial Basis (2020) (0)
Origins of the U.S. Financial System (2018) (0)
A Table Shewing The Interest of any Sum of Money At 6 per Cent. Simple Intereft (2022) (0)
Corporation Reorganizations and Receiverships (2020) (0)
William Hogeland, Founding finance: how debt, speculation, foreclosures, protests, and crackdowns made us a nation (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2012. Pp. vii+274. 16 illus. ISBN 9780292743618 Hbk. $20) (2015) (0)
Cheques (2014) (0)
Hudson City Bancorp (2015) (0)
The Oldest U.S. Banks (2016) (0)
Speculation with Capital (2020) (0)
Economics (1986) (0)
The Limit to a Nation’s Cantal (2020) (0)
An Epitome of the Stocks and Publick Funds (2020) (0)
The “Tip” to Buy or Sell (2020) (0)
BBVA Compass Bancshares (2015) (0)
Unsettled Account: The Evolution of Banking in the Industrialized World Since 1800 . By Richard S. Grossman. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010. Pp. xx, 384. $39.50, cloth. (2011) (0)
Schedules to which this Act refers. (2022) (0)
Joint Stock Companies Act. (2022) (0)
Financing Anglo-American Trade: The House of Brown, 1800–1880. By Edwin J. Perkins. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1975. Pp. xi + 323. $15.00 (1976) (0)
The Denigration of Cotton and other Dissertations: A Discussion (1975) (0)
The Significance of the Founding Choices (2010) (0)
Deposits at Interest (2020) (0)
CHAPTER 2: THE BROAD PERSPECTIVE (2001) (0)
How the American Corporation Evolved over Two Centuries 1 (2014) (0)
Robert P. Bremner. Chairman of the Fed: William McChesney Martin, Jr., and the Creation of the Modern Federal Reserve System. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2004. vi + 357 pp. ISBN 0-300-10508-8, $38.00 (2006) (0)
Modern Production (2020) (0)
Money (2020) (0)
Every man a speculator: a history of Wall Street in American life, by Steve Fraser (2009) (0)
Technical Terms Explained (2020) (0)
Bank-Notes (2020) (0)
The Importance of Special Knowledge regarding the Regularly Recurring Causes that Influence the Markets (2020) (0)
Joint Stock Companies Acts Amendment (2022) (0)
The History of Corporate Finance (2020) (0)
Pursuant to the direction in Her Majestys Commission (2020) (0)
Subsidiary Companies and Their Securities (2020) (0)
Labour (2020) (0)
Corporation Accounting (2020) (0)
From exceptional to normal: changes in the structure of US banking since 1920 (2020) (0)
The Philadelphia Stock Exchange and the City It Made. By Domenic Vitiello, with George E. Thomas (2017) (0)
Insider Lending: Banks, Personal Connections, and Economic Development in Industrial New England . By Naomi R. Lamoreaux. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xii, 170. $39.95. (1995) (0)
Seeking Optimum-Profit Production Decisions (1974) (0)
Commercial Credit (2020) (0)
Regulation in Nineteenth- Century U.S. Banking (1994) (0)
TD Bank US Holding (2015) (0)
Modern Influences upon the Markets (2020) (0)
Roger Lowenstein: Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War (2022) (0)
In What Respect is Speculation Useful in Markets Generally? (2020) (0)
Early US Struggles with Fiscal Federalism: Lessons for Europe? (2014) (0)
Money, Power, and the People: The American Struggle to Make Banking Democratic. By Christopher W. Shaw (2021) (0)
George Feifer. Breaking Open Japan: Commodore Perry, Lord Abe, and American Imperialism in 1853. New York: Smithsonian Books, 2006. xx + 389 pp. ISBN-10: 0-06-088432-0, $25.95 (Hardback) (2007) (0)
U.S. Bancorp (2015) (0)
Joint Stock Banking Companies (2022) (0)
The Shifting of Speculation from the Higher to the Lower Classes of Securities (2020) (0)
Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles by William Quinn and John D. Turner (2021) (0)
Joint Stock Companies Act Amendment Act. (2022) (0)
The Breakdown of Bretton Woods and the Revival of Global Finance (2002) (0)
Banking Panics of the Gilded Age. By Elmus Wicker. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xvii + 160 pp. Illustrations, tables, Cloth, $49.95. ISBN 0-521-77023-8 (2001) (0)
HSBC North America (2015) (0)
The Rates and Orders of Coach-Men (2022) (0)
Discounts: The Bank Rate (2020) (0)
Banks, Holding Companies and Corporate Genealogies: Necessary Technical Talk (2015) (0)
A Table of the Discompt or Rebate of Moneys at 6 per Cent. Simple Intereft. (2022) (0)
Essays in History: Financial, Economic, Personal. By Charle P. Kindleberger. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999. Pp. xvi, 245. $49.50 (2000) (0)
Banking (1980) (0)
Corporate finance in theory (2003) (0)
Preface (2020) (0)
Speculation without Capital (2020) (0)
The Examination of Railway Reports (2020) (0)
Early U.S. Economic Policy: Jefferson Versus Hamilton (1790s–1816) (2014) (0)

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