Stanley L. Engerman / Philip T. Hoffman / Jean-Laurent Rosenthal / Kenneth L. Sokoloff (eds.)

Finance, Intermediaries, and Economic Development

Herausgeber: Engerman, Stanley L.; Rosenthal, Jean-Laurent; Hoffman, Philip T.

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume examines financial economic intermediation in Europe, Canada, and the United States since the seventeenth century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 362
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 738g
• ISBN-13: 9780521820547
• ISBN-10: 0521820545
• Artikelnr.: 26931057

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors; Preface; Introduction; Part I. Financial
Intermediaries in Europe: 1. Markets and institutions in the rise of London
as a financial center in the seventeenth century Larry Neal and Steven
Quinn; 2. The Paris bourse, 1724-1814: experiments in microstructure Eugene
N. White; 3. No exit: notarial bankruptcies and the evolution of financial
intermediation in nineteenth century Paris Philip T. Hoffman, Giles
Postel-Vinay, and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal; Part II. Financial Intermediaries
in the Americas: 4. The mortgage market in Upper Canada: window on a
pioneer economy Angela Redish; 5. Integration of US capital markets:
southern stock markets and the case of New Orleans, 1871-1913 John B.
Legler and Richard Sylla; 6. The transition from building and loan to
savings and loan, 1890-1940 Kenneth A. Snowden; Part III. Other Forms of
Intermediation: 7. Intermediaries in the US market for Technology,
1870-1920 Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Kenneth L. Sokoloff; 8. Beyond Chinatown:
overseas Chinese intermediaries on the multiethnic North-American Pacific
coast in the age of financial capital Diane Newell; 9. Finance and capital
accumulation in a planned economy: the agricultural surplus hypothesis and
Soviet economic development, 1928-39 Robert C. Allen; 10. Was adherence to
the gold standard a 'good housekeeping seal of approval' during the
interwar period? Michael Bordo, Michael Edelstein, and Hugh Rockoff;
Afterword: about Lance Davis; Index.