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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... Sterling 378 Sterling 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 ...
... sterling and French franc abandoned- 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 ...
... sterling Adoption by the US of lend - lease to its Allies Anglo - American Financial Agreement Adoption of Marshall Plan to aid European reconstruction The Rome Treaty establishes the European Economic Com- munity ( EEC ) Part One Money ...
... sterling about a hundred years apart , in 1819 and 1925 . All involved deflation . That of the ' calling down ' of the testoon ( old shilling ) from 12d to 9d and further to 6d in 1551 and to 41⁄2d for the better base testoons in 1561 ...
... sterling so as to repay loans contracted in Antwerp more cheaply in Eng- lish money ; he was a strong deflationist , ready to accept lower prices and unemployment for the sake of the queen's financial interest ( ibid . , p . 92 ) ...
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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 |