Trevor Jackson (Washington DC George Washington University)

Impunity and Capitalism

The Afterlives of European Financial Crises, 1690-1830

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Produktbeschreibung

Impunity and Capitalism examines the evolution of economic impunity in Europe across the long eighteenth century with a focus on several international financial crises: 1709, 1720, 1793Ã â â 97 and 1825. Trevor Jackson considers how these crises happened, who was responsible for stopping them, and how financial capitalism created new forms of impunity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 161mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9781316516287
• ISBN-10: 1316516288
• Artikelnr.: 63565115

Autorenporträt

Trevor Jackson is Assistant Professor of History at George Washington University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Part I: Preface: Impunity at the Origins of Financial Capitalism: 1. Professionalizing impunity: from the failures of 1709 to the crisis of 1720; 2. The crisis of 1720 and the invention of discredit; 3. Between independence and impunity: the legitimacy of central banking after the crisis of 1720; Part II: Preface: Revolutionary Impunity: 4. The end of the old financial regime, 1781
1793; 5. Recasting financial capitalism, 1796
1821; Part III: Preface: The Gold Standard and a Stable Impunity, 1815
1830: 6. The panic of 1825 and the systematization of impunity; Conclusion: monetary policy as conscience management.