A Financial History of Western EuropeRoutledge, 3 jun 2015 - 543 páginas This is the first history of finance - broadly defined to include money, banking, capital markets, public and private finance, international transfers etc. - that covers Western Europe (with an occasional glance at the western hemisphere) and half a millennium. Charles Kindleberger highlights the development of financial institutions to meet emerging needs, and the similarities and contrasts in the handling of financial problems such as transferring resources from one country to another, stimulating investment, or financing war and cleaning up the resulting monetary mess. The first half of the book covers money, banking and finance from 1450 to 1913; the second deals in considerably finer detail with the twentieth century. This major work casts current issues in historical perspective and throws light on the fascinating, and far from orderly, evolution of financial institutions and the management of financial problems. Comprehensive, critical and cosmopolitan, this book is both an outstanding work of reference and essential reading for all those involved in the study and practice of finance, be they economic historians, financial experts, scholarly bankers or students of money and banking. This groundbreaking work was first published in 1984. |
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... Currency Areas 455 Economic and Monetary Union ( EMU ) 456 The Snake 457 The All Saints ' Day Manifesto 458 European ... Currencies at Specified Dates Bibliography Index 474 477 513 Illustrations Cartoons 1 Cartoon by George du Maurier ...
... September 1931 and March 1932 23.1 European Payments Union Schedule of Settlement 24.1 Value of the European Currency Unit ( ECU ) , 1979 381 441 460 Apologies and Acknowledgements An obvious criticism of this book is Tables.
... currency -caused mainly by an excess of issue of domestic currency , or does it come from the balance of payments by way of outpayments which lead to currency depreciation and thus to inflation ? And , as a branch of the perennial ...
... currency exchange rates adjusted French franc devalued , pound made convertible Gold pool established in London General Arrangements to Borrow extended the IMF agree- ment Basle Agreement instituted central - bank swaps Devaluation of ...
... currency schools - a debate which has its echoes in the twentieth century over the causes of German inflation in the 1920s , and in Europe as a whole in the 1970s and 1980s . The triumph of the currency school in Britain led to the Bank ...
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15 | |
Part Two Banking | 71 |
Part Three Finance | 153 |
Part Four The Interwar Period | 287 |
Part Five Afrer World War II | 401 |
Glossary | 465 |
Conversion TablesEquivalences and Exchange Rates for Specified Coins and Currencies at Specified Dates | 474 |
Bibliography | 477 |
Index | 513 |
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A Financial History of Western Europe Charles P. Kindleberger No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2007 |