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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... Trade : A European Case Study ( 1956 ) Economic Development ( 1958 ) Foreign Trade and the National Economy ( 1962 ) Economic Growth in France and Britain , 1851–1950 ( 1964 ) Europe and the Dollar ( 1966 ) Europe's Post - war Growth ...
... trade and to enable producers to dispose of their output . These worries arose partly because the mining of silver and gold was limited in Europe , but to a great extent because of the unbalanced trade with the East - both the Baltic ...
... trade was risky ; caravans of as many as 2,000 men and 1,800 camels on one occasion could be lost . The rewards were great : at one time the terms of trade between gold and salt - the latter des- perately needed in Africa to preserve ...
... trade in mer- chandise . The Age of Discovery The first step in compensation for the bullion famine came about the middle of the fifteenth century when the spread of the lateen ( fore - and- aft ) sail to supplement the square - rigged ...
... trade rather than trade to money as the quantity theory would have it ( Maynard , 1962 , p . 69 , n.1 , quoted by Outhwaite , 1969 , p . 43 ) . If a clear - cut choice must be made between real factors and the quantity theory of money ...
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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 |