BOOK LAUNCH - Atlas of Finance: Mapping the Global Story of Money
About the Book
The Atlas of Finance is a unique illustrated exploration of the development of finance that combines data from every part of the world and covers five thousand years of history.
From the emergence of money in the ancient world to today’s interconnected landscape of high-frequency trading and cryptocurrency, the story of finance has always taken place on an international stage. Finance is one of the most globalized and networked of human activities, and one of the most important social technologies ever invented.
This volume, the first visually based book dedicated to finance, uses graphics and maps to bring the complex and abstract world of finance down to earth, showing how geography is fundamental for understanding finance, and vice versa. It illuminates the people—including Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes—who have shaped our thinking about global finance; brings to life the ways that place-specific histories, laws, regulations, and institutions influence finance; shows how finance relates to innovation, globalization, and environmental change; and details how finance plays a key part in drawing the landscape of uneven development, inequality, and instability.
The Atlas of Finance, with word and image, will change the way you view both your money and your world.
About the Author
Dariusz Wojcik
NUS Department of Geography
Professor Dariusz Wojcik is a financial and economic geographer. Before coming to NUS, he was awarded a full professorship at Oxford in 2014. Over 20 years he has been awarded 16 grants with a total value of over SGD 6.4 million, funded by organisations in the UK, EU, US, China, and Australia. In 2022 he completed a €2 million grant from the European Research Council on Cities in Global Financial Networks and in 2023 he was a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Resident, finalising the first ever Atlas of Finance. In addition to being a Professor of Financial Geography at NUS, he is a Visiting Professor at the Department of Geography of Beijing Normal University, an Honorary Research Associate at the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, and Associate Member of St. Peter's College Oxford. In the past, he was also a visiting professor in Hong Kong and in Sydney.
