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Dr. Charles Geisst

Dr. Charles Geisst

Professor of Finance

 

Education:

  • BA University of Richmond 1968 History
  • MA New School for Social Research 1970 Political Science
  • Ph.D. London School of Economics & Political Science 1972 Politics

Contact Information:

Courses Taught/Teaching

  • FIN 301 Principles of Business Finance
  • FIN 308 Investments
  • FIN 408 Financial Intermediaries
  • FIN 440 Advanced Topics in Finance

These courses may not reflect what is being taught this semester. For current information visit the course catalog online.

 

Refereed Journal Articles:

None

Other Intellectual Contributions:

Editor, Encyclopedia of American Business History. Facts on File, 2005.

Undue Influence: How the Wall Street Elite Put the Financial System at Risk.  Wiley, 2004.

Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin Lefevre.  Wiley, 2004.

Chinese Translation, Wheels of Fortune, Beijing, 2004.

Russian translation, Wall Street: A History, Moscow, 2004.

Wall Street: A History.  Revised and Expanded Edition. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Deals of the Century: Wall Street, Mergers, and The Making of Modern America.  Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2003. Named by the Australian Financial Review as one of the 101 Best Business Books of 2005.

Wheels of Fortune: The History of Speculation From Scandal to Respectability.  Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2002.  Translated into Korean.

The Last Partnerships: Inside the Great Wall Street Money Dynasties, New York: McGraw-Hill, 2001.  Booklist selected The Last Partnerships as one of the ten best business books of 2001.

“The Future of Wall Street,” New York Institute of Finance, New York, NY, December 2005.

“Wall Street,”  92 Street Y, New York, NY, July 2004.

“How Will Lazard Fare?” Wall Street Journal, 14 January 2002.

“J.J. Astor,” in Paul Boyer, ed., The Oxford Companion to United States History, Oxford University Press, New York, NY, 2001, page 53.

“New York Stock Exchange,” in Paul Boyer, ed., The Oxford Companion to United States History, Oxford University Press, New York, NY, 2001, page 748.

“C. Vanderbilt,” in Paul Boyer, ed., The Oxford Companion to United States History, Oxford University Press, New York, NY, 2001, p 801.