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Understanding Money: The History of Finance, Speculation, and the Stock Market 

Understanding Money: The History of Finance, Speculation, and the Stock Market
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University of Southampton 
Overview

Explore how money, investment, and finance have been represented in arts, literature, and popular culture over the last 300 years

Duration

3 weeks

Mode of learning

Online

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Understanding Money: The History of Finance, Speculation, and the Stock Market
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Understanding Money: The History of Finance, Speculation, and the Stock Market
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University of Southampton 
Course details

Who should do this course?
  • Anyone with a general interest in money and how money is understood in society, as well as anyone interested in history, literature, and economics
What are the course deliverables?
  • Explain the ways in which critical, cultural and literary history and theory contributes to our understanding of three central economic concepts – money, credit, markets
  • Evaluate the differences between a number of central critical traditions and theoretical approaches
  • Describe the origins and the purpose of the contemporary financial market and the ways in which it functions
  • Identify and discuss the ways in which a range of literary and visual texts offer us a critical insight into these histories and give them a social and political relevance
More about this course
  • What is money? What does money do? How has the understanding of economics changed over the years? Explore the answers to these questions and more in this online course
  • On this course, you will learn how literary, cultural, visual and historical studies have offered new ways of understanding money and investment
  • You will look at popular representations of finance in visual culture and literature and explore the social meaning of credit, debt and the role of the market. You will also investigate financial crises in history and analyse how the media presents this information to the public

Understanding Money: The History of Finance, Speculation, and the Stock Market
 at 
University of Southampton 
Curriculum

An introduction to the disciplinary debates regarding the function and histories of money

An exploration of money’s representations in art, literature and popular culture

An introduction to stocks, shares, investment and the national debt

An exploration of how investment cultures have changed and the role that technology and financial advice have played in them

An analysis of the causes and forms of financial crisis

An exploration of four case studies - the South Sea Bubble, the Railway Mania, the Wall Street Crash and the Global Financial Crisis of 2008

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Understanding Money: The History of Finance, Speculation, and the Stock Market
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Faculty details

Nicky Marsh
I am a Professor of Twentieth Century Literary Studies at the University of Southampton. I work on representations of money and market in British and American fiction and culture.
Helen Paul
I am an economic historian based at the University of Southampton. My initial research interest was the South Sea Bubble, a financial market crash in 1720.

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