# Professor Richard Sylla's co-authored book, "A History of Interest Rates," is mentioned

1 Faculty News January 24, 2018 ![Bloomberg View logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/bloombergview_0.jpg?itok=47DlvcFA)>

Excerpt from [Bloomberg View](https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-01-24/medieval-wisdom-on-when-to-start-worrying-about-the-bond-market) -- "Paul Schmelzing, a doctoral candidate in history at Harvard University, recently published a Bank of England working paper that sought to remedy this dearth of information. He began with the work of Sidney Homer and [Richard Sylla](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/richard-sylla), whose monumental tome 'A History of Interest Rates' contains a wealth of data going back centuries."

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