Télécharger le livre :  The Bubble Act
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This book reassesses the actual effects of the Bubble Act, still popularly associated with the bursting of the South Sea Bubble. The book builds on the foundational work of Ron Harris to discuss the act’s effect on corporate governance, literary culture, colonial law,...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2023-06-30
Collection : Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance
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Télécharger le livre :  The Roman Stock Exchange between the 19th and 20th Centuries
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This book explores the Italian stock exchange through its construction and consolidation while examining and criticizing the birth of the capital city. Through the evolution of the stock exchange, the transformation of Rome is examined from the capital of a...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-06-30
Collection : Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance
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Télécharger le livre :  Risk Management in Early Banking
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This book deals with risk management and the organisation of banking in Swedish savings banks alongside the development in other European countries. The period of analysis begins with the establishment of the first savings banks in 1820 and ends in 1910. During this...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-08-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Taming the Fringe
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Taming the Fringe analyses the regulation and evolution of two credit products that were, and remain, vital to the working poor. Policymakers have struggled with pawnbroking and moneylending because they raise broader issues pertaining to poverty, capitalism and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-04-09
Collection : Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance
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Télécharger le livre :  A World of Public Debts
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This book analyzes public debt from a political, historical, and global perspective. It demonstrates that public debt has been a defining feature in the construction of modern states, a main driver in the history of capitalism, and a potent geopolitical force. From...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-10-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Political Economy in the Habsburg Monarchy 1750–1774
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Political Economy in the Habsburg Monarchy is an important study of the contribution of Austrian Enlightenment economist Ludwig Zinzendorf to the political economy of the Habsburg monarchy in the mid eighteenth century. Simon Adler provides the first comprehensive...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-03-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Government and Merchant Finance in Anglo-Gascon Trade, 1300–1500
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The Late Middle Ages (c.1300–c.1500) saw the development of many of the key economic institutions of the modern unitary nation-state in Europe. After the ‘commercial revolution’ of the thirteenth century, taxes on trade became increasingly significant contributors to...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-02-22
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Télécharger le livre :  The Prince of Slavers
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Much scholarship on the British transatlantic slave trade has focused on its peak period in the late eighteenth century and its abolition in the early nineteenth; or on the Royal African Company (RAC), which in 1698 lost the monopoly it had previously enjoyed over the...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-02-04
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Télécharger le livre :  The Political Economy of Money and Banking in Imperial Brazil, 1850–1889
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This book uncovers the extent to which government policy in mid nineteenth-century Brazil followed the interests of the all-powerful coffee growing class. The testing ground for this question is monetary and banking policy, an area in which exporters and the Brazilian...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-02-03
Collection : Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance
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Télécharger le livre :  Financing the Landed Estate
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While there is an extensive historiography which explores English agriculture in the nineteenth century, there has been less attention paid to individual estates and in particular the role of the land agent within their management, administration and participation in...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-05-10
Collection : Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance
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Télécharger le livre :  Taxation, Politics, and Protest in Ireland, 1662–2016
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This book examines the politics of taxation in Ireland between the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries. Combining political, economic, and policy history, it contributes to a growing interdisciplinary literature on public finance, while also providing context for the...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-01-10
Collection : Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance
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Télécharger le livre :  The Government of Markets
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Absent evidence to the contrary, it is usually assumed that US financial markets developed in spite of government attempts to regulate, and therefore laissez faire is the best approach for developing critically important and enduring market institutions. This book makes...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-12-21
Collection : Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance
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Télécharger le livre :  From Crisis to Crisis
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From Crisis to Crisis examines the impact of the harsh conditions of the interwar economy on the British merchant banks.  The financial crises of 1914 and 1931 are assessed using primary sources. The competitive threats, including the rise of New...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-12-11
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Télécharger le livre :  The War Within
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The international financial crisis of 2007-08 and the ensuing scandals continue to raise important debates about the role of institutions in maintaining trust and fighting corruption, as well as in sustaining economic growth and political stability in a globalized...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-10-03
Collection : Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance
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Télécharger le livre :  Financial Innovation and Resilience
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As Ignazio Visco, Governor of the Bank of Italy, says in his Foreword, all economic policy makers today need to re-examine our history to help them confront the challenges of today. This edited volume focuses specifically on the theme of financial innovation and how...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-09-28
Collection : Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance
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Télécharger le livre :  Worlds of Taxation
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This book provides a historical understanding of current debates over tax reform and offers a comparative framework for discussing the relationship between fiscal policy and the distribution of income and wealth. Topics covered include the evolution of income taxation...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-07-27
Collection : Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance
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Télécharger le livre :  The Success of English Land Tax Administration 1643–1733
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This book provides a thorough review of early English land taxes of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. It is a polemical work which is critical of the institutional English state narratives including Brewer’s ‘Sinews of Power’ and North and Weingast’s...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-07-21
Collection : Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance
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Télécharger le livre :  Enterprise, Money and Credit in England before the Black Death 1285–1349
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This book charts the contributions made to the development of the late medieval English economy by enterprise, money, and credit in a period which saw its major export trade in wool, which earned most of its money-supply, suffer from prolonged periods of warfare, high...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-07-18
Collection : Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance
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Télécharger le livre :  Jacob Schiff and the Art of Risk
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Jacob Henry Schiff (1847–1920), a German-born American Jewish banker, facilitated critical loans for Japan in the early twentieth century. Working on behalf of the firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., Schiff’s assertiveness in favour of Japan separated him from his fellow German...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-06-19
Collection : Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance
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Télécharger le livre :  The 1772–73 British Credit Crisis
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Nowadays remembered mostly through Adam Smith’s references to the short-lived Ayr Bank in the Wealth of Nations, the 1772-3 financial crisis was an important historical episode in its own right, taking place during a pivotal period in the development of financial...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-03-21
Collection : Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance
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