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How to Build a Stock Exchange: The Past, Present and Future of Finance by Philip Roscoe

Our IPO-VID guest 105 Philip Roscoe creates a cautionary tale about the drive of financial markets towards expropriation, capture and exclusion.

A must read book from University of St Andrews Reader in Management, Philip Roscoe, even if it’s much more about socioeconomics than anything remotely like a build manual for a marketplace (if you need one of those DM me…).

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How to Build A Stock Exchange with Philip Roscoe
How to Build a Stock Exchange, mingles history, technical detail and humorous anecdotes to explore the nature and purpose of finance.
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