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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... Profits ' from India , 1757-84 13.2 Means of Paying the 5 Billion Franc Indemnity , 1871-3 237 247 14.1 Yields on Various British and French Securities , 1885-1904 16.1 Note Circulation of Selected Central Banks , 1913–21 16.2 National ...
... . Clearly silver and war leapfrogged , and war is one of the greatest strains on resources and contributors to inflation . Seignorage Seignorage is the profit on minting of coins , The Evolution of Money in Western Europe 29.
Charles P. Kindleberger. Seignorage Seignorage is the profit on minting of coins , earned by the mint , usually owned or farmed out by the sovereign , who has a certain droit de seigneur or monopoly on such profits . The issue of whether ...
... profits can be maximized by adulteration ; in the long run , by producing to quality stan- dards . There is no a priori basis for determining that a given society will conform to one standard of performance or the other . When the Crown ...
... profit , they content themselves to do it in Spain and other places ... by exchanging their monies for grain to those Merchants who trade therewith in wares . And thus wheresoever they ( the monies ) live abroad for a time , circuiting ...
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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 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todo
A Financial History of Western Europe Charles P. Kindleberger No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2007 |