Charles Geisst

Courses Taught

FIN 408      Financial Intermediaries
FIN 436      Multinational Finance
FIN 440      Advanced Topics in Finance
FIN 441      Finance Seminar
FIN 471      Finance Thesis Project I

  • Publications and Scholarly Activities
    • Books
    • Loan Sharks: The Birth of Predatory Lending.  Brookings Institution Press, 2017.
    • Beggar Thy Neighbor: A History of Usury & Debt.  U. of Pennsylvania Press, 2013.
    • Wall Street: A History.  Updated edition. Oxford University Press, 2012.  A New York Times Business Bestseller.
    • Collateral Damaged: The Marketing of Consumer Debt to America.  Bloomberg Press, 2009.  Winner of the NYSSCPAs Best Finance Book of 2009.  Also a Choice Notable Book of 2009 and one of USA Today's best business books of the year.
    • Editor, Encyclopedia of American Business History. Facts on File, 2005.
    • Undue Influence: How the Wall Street Elite Put the Financial System at Risk.  John Wiley, 2004.
    • Deals of the Century: Wall Street, Mergers, and The Making of Modern America. John Wiley, 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.  John Wiley, 2002. 
    • The Last Partnerships: Inside the Great Wall Street Money Dynasties.  McGraw-Hill, 2001.  One of Booklist's ten best business books of 2001.
    • 100 Years of Wall Street.  McGraw Hill, 2000.  A Business Week and Wall Street Journal bestseller.
    • Monopolies In America.  Oxford University Press, 1999.
    • Exchange Rate Chaos. Routledge, 1994.
    • Investment Banking in the Financial System, Prentice Hall, 1993.
    • Entrepot Capitalism. Praeger, 1992.
    • Visionary Capitalism.  Praeger, 1990.
    • Financial Futures Markets, with Brendan Brown.  Macmillan, 1984.
    • A Guide to Financial Institutions.  Macmillan, 1988 & 1994.
    • A Guide to the Financial Markets.  Macmillan, 1982 & 1989.  One of The Economist's best business books of 1983.
    • Raising International Capital: International Bond Markets & the European Institutions.  Saxon House, 1980.