Stephen Quinn (Texas Christian University), William Roberds (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta)

How a Ledger Became a Central Bank

A Monetary History of the Bank of Amsterdam

• Broschiertes 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

• Studies in Macroeconomic History
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 151mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781108706155
• ISBN-10: 1108706150
• Artikelnr.: 68684165

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.