Masters in Business · Friday, October 23, 2026
Robin Wigglesworth discusses the origins of fixed income history, tracing it back to Venice in 1171. He explains how the city forced citizens to pay a proportional war tax that was converted into a tradable, interest-bearing loan.
“The reason why I decided to start in Venice in 1171 is because really when I see, I want to see intellectual genealogy, as it were. Like, what really was the stuff that led to B, to C, to D?”