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 :  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
Collection : Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance
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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 :  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 :  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 :  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 :  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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Télécharger le livre :  Land and Credit
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This volume investigates the use of mortgages in the European countryside between the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries. A mortgage allowed a loan to be secured with land or other property, and the practice has been linked to the transformation of the agrarian economy...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-02-27
Collection : Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance
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Télécharger le livre :  Financing in Europe
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This book explores the evolution of credit and financing in Europe from the Middle Ages through to Modern Times. It engages with the distinct  political, economic and institutional frameworks of the examined areas (England, Italy, France, Germany, Spain, the...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-02-19
Collection : Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance
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Télécharger le livre :  A History of Socially Responsible Business, c.1600–1950
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This book examines the changing reciprocal relationships between corporations and their various social obligations over the very long term - from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Chapters from emerging and established business historians assess the full range...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-10-26
Collection : Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance
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Télécharger le livre :  Decision Taking, Confidence and Risk Management in Banks from Early Modernity to the 20th Century
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This book offers 14 contributions that examine key questions in bank decision-taking,constitution of confidence in banks and risk management practices from Early Modernity to the twentieth century. It explores how the various mechanisms of bank decision...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-01-26
Collection : Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance
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Télécharger le livre :  Conservative Economic Policymaking and the Birth of Thatcherism, 1964-1979
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In this book, Adrian Williamson investigates the processes by which Thatcherism became established in Tory thinking, and questions to what extent the politician herself is responsible for Thatcherism within the Conservative Party.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-01-12
Collection : Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance
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Télécharger le livre :  Sovereign Debt and International Financial Control
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This book revisits an important chapter of financial history in the Middle East and the Balkans from 1870 1914. During this period, capital flows in the form of sovereign debt increased rapidly throughout the region. The spiral of heavy government borrowing eventually...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-08-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Constructing a Fiscal Military State in Eighteenth Century Spain
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Historically, Spain has often been represented as a financial failure, a state limited by its absolutist monarchy and doomed to fiscal and financial failure without hope of lasting growth. The collapse of the Spanish state at the beginning of the nineteenth century...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-05-25
Collection : Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance
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Télécharger le livre :  The Great Crash of 1929
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Understanding the American stock market boom and bust of the 1920s is vital for formulating policies to combat the potentially deleterious effects of busts on the economy. Using new data, Kabiri explains what led to the 1920s stock market boom and 1929 crash and looks...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-11-25
Collection : Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance
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Télécharger le livre :  Dangerous and Dishonest Men: The International Bankers of Louis XIV's France
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At the start of the eighteenth century Louis XIV needed to remit huge sums of money abroad to support his armies during the War of the Spanish Succession. This book explains how international bankers moved French money across Europe, and how the foreign exchange system...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-11-20
Collection : Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance
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Télécharger le livre :  UK Monetary Policy from Devaluation to Thatcher, 1967-82
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This book charts the course of monetary policy in the UK from 1967 to 1982. It shows how events such as the 1967 devaluation, the collapse of Bretton Woods, the stagflation of the 1970s, and the IMF loan of 1976 all shaped policy. It shows that the 'monetarist'...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-05-09
Collection : Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance
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