# Finance and Society

"The Courtyard of the Beurs in Amsterdam," 1653, by Dutch painter Emanuel de Witte. This course offers students an introduction to finance through historical and social-scientific perspectives. (This image is in the public domain.)

### Instructor(s)

Prof. William Deringer

### MIT Course Number

STS.002

### As Taught In

Spring 2016

### Level

Undergraduate

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Some Description
Instructor(s) | Prof.
As Taught In | Spring 2002
Course Number | 2.24
Level | Undergraduate/Graduate
Features | Lecture Notes, Student Work

## Course Description

This course provides students with a broad historical and social-scientific introduction to a central aspect of modern economic life: Finance. By drawing upon a variety of disciplinary perspectives from the humanities and social sciences, the course offers a multi-dimentional picture of finance, not only as an economic phenomenon, but as a political, cultural, intellectual, material, and technological one. The course offers an introduction to foundational financial concepts and technologies, and will help students understand finance as a complex and multifaceted phenomenon. This course also provides students with the opportunity to improve skills in written communication, and to learn tools for historical analysis and textual interpretation.

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- History > History of Science and Technology
- History > World History
- Economics
- Society
- Finance

William Deringer. STS.002 Finance and Society. Spring 2016. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.

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