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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... Depreciation 380 The Exchange Equalization Account ( EEA ) 382 The Japanese Yen and the Dollar 384 Suggested Supplementary Reading 384 21 The 1930s 385 The World Economic Conference , 1933 385 Sterling Bloc 387 Swedish Monetary Policy ...
... depreciation and thus to inflation ? And , as a branch of the perennial debate between expansionists ( called Keynesians ) and contrac- tionists ( monetarists ) , there is the issue whether bimetallism is good because it increases the ...
... depreciation Hyperinflation in Germany , followed by Rentenmark Reichsmark Squeeze in French francs punished speculators Restoration of pound to par De facto stabilization of French franc at devalued level German Standstill Agreement ...
... depreciation of currency , paper , bullion , rates of exchange , value of precious metals in the market , and so forth ; but looking down at the little chair , and seeing what a long way down it was , he answered : ' Gold , and silver ...
... depreciation of metallic coins . A troy pound of silver that originally was worth a pound sterling ended up in 1816 at a price of £ 3 6s . The Price Revolution ? Since Hamilton's book came out in 1934 , something of a question has ...
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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 |