Option A: A walking tour through town, optionally ending at a restaurant. Option B: Lecture with Powerpoint presentation at your office address. Amsterdams capitalism, a quick overflight, history. Well researched, with eye witness texts, told on the right spot in the city. Scientifically sound, entertaining, fun, a program with Drs. Kees Kaldenbach. Amsterdam has a rich history with many ups and downs. One may consider the United East India Company (VOC) of 1602 as the birthplace of modern capitalism. In one go the VOC invented a workable machinery of stock emission, paid up shares, share trade on the stock market (bourse/beurs). The municipality of Amsterdam offered a well oiled machinery in the Exchange Bank - wisselbank and their trustworthy papers. Close by was the Goods Exchange where the papers from the Exchange Bank could be transformed into actual trade. In the eighteenth century there was a shift towards banking and organising massive loans to foreign powers involved in making war. King Willem I started the national Nederlandsche Bank and the Nederlandsche Handel Maatschappij, whiuch was in fact a rebirth of the VOC. Main actors: The Dutch reformed families who called the shots after the "Alteratie" revolution in 1578 and keeping power in their hands; up to the Widow Borski, who financed and floated the Nederlandsche Bank and the Nederlandsche Handel Maatschappij. Bank fusions in the 1960s up to now. High stakes and failings. Option A: A walking tour through town, optionally ending at a restaurant. This is a high level excursion on foot through Amsterdam, on the right spots I tell you riveting stories. Quotations from letters and documents of the period. This walk will take a hour and a half. Optionally we can make a boat trip on a historic ship. We may also end up in a restaurant. Option B: Lecture with Powerpoint at your office. I will come to your office and give the short but great lecture. I will bill you a morning or an afternoon. Member discount: Notes: On Sunday the United East Company square is closed off. Contact me for information on other venues and rebate for larger groups. 
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