Stephen Quinn, William Roberds

How a Ledger Became a Central Bank

A Monetary History of the Bank of Amsterdam

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"A quantitative history of the Bank of Amsterdam, a dominant central bank for much of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This book should interest monetary economists, scholars of central bank history, and historians of the Dutch Republic"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 662g
• ISBN-13: 9781108484275
• ISBN-10: 1108484271
• Artikelnr.: 68680985

Autorenporträt

Stephen Quinn is a Professor of Economics at Texas Christian University. He has published extensively on the origins of banking in London and Amsterdam, which has awarded him a visiting lectureship at the Bank of England and a New York Times Magazine Idea of the Year.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Similar yet different?
2. The world of the bank
3. Coins in eighteenth-century Amsterdam
4. First steps, 1609-1659
5. Emergence of the receipt system, 1660-1710
6. Metal in motion: the mechanics of receipts
7. Two banks and one money, 1711-1791
8. Prussia's debasement during the Seven Years War: the role of the Bank
9. The bank's place in central bank history.