In the Market: The Illustrated History of the Financial Markets

by Christopher Finch, John M. Angelo (Foreword)

The author sifts through history for evidence of the influence of capital markets on everyday life, from Greek marketplace and medieval fairs to the evolution of the stock market and the modern computerized trading system, using hundreds of illustrations to showcase the power of the market.

Genres: Business

364 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 2001

About the author

Christopher Finch was born in Guernsey in the British Channel Islands, and now lives in Los Angeles. He is an artist and a photographer who has had one person shows in New York and California, and he is the author of almost thirty non-fiction books including the best sellers Rainbow: the Stormy Life of Judy Garland, The Art of Walt Disney, Jim Henson: the Works, and Norman Rockwell's America. Recently he has embarked on a series of noir-inflected mystery novels set in New York in the late 1960s and featuring the private investigator Alex Novalis. The first of these, Good Girl, Bad Girl, is to be published by Thomas & Mercer in 2013. These books draw on his own experiences in the New York art world at a time when today's SoHo was an urban wilderness with rats frolicking in the gutters and artists eking out a living in barren loft spaces. He is married to Linda Rosenkrantz, an author and a co-founder of the website Nameberry.