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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...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-09-28
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This edited volume showcases how the European cooperative banks have continued to evolve amid a new competitive scenario that resulted from the Global Financial Crisis started in Europe in 2008. The cooperative banking paradigm has been put under an unprecedented...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-09-01
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While it is central to today's politics, few people fully understand the National Debt and its role in shaping the course of British history. Without it, Britain would not have gained-and lost-two empires, nor won its wars against France and Germany. But Britain has...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-09-01
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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...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-07-21
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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...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-18
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Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance
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One of the lessons learned from the Global Financial Crisis of 2007–9 is that minimum capital requirements are a necessary but inadequate safeguard for the stability of an intermediary. Despite the high levels of capitalization of many banks before the crisis, they too...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-09
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From the acclaimed author of Britain's War Machine and The Shock of the Old, a bold reassessment of Britain's twentieth century.Itis usual to see the United Kingdom as an island of continuity in an otherwiseconvulsed and unstable Europe; its political history a smooth...
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Penguin
Parution :
2018-06-28
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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...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-06-19
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American economic history describes the transition of a handful of struggling settlements on the Atlantic seaboard into the nation with the most successful economy in the world today. As the economy has developed, so have the methods used by economic historians to...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-06-15
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Wall Street is is a universal symbol of both the highest aspirations of economic prosperity and the basest impulses of greed and deception. Charles R. Geisst'sWall Street is a chronicle of the street itself-from the days when the wall was merely a defensive barricade...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-06-12
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Funded by the tobacco and fossil fuel industries, the Mises- and Hayek-inspired ‘free’ market has adopted ‘The Slogan of Liberty’ - but should their faith-based assertions be accorded the same epistemological status as a science? If Austrian economics is a branch...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-15
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This study examines the darker side of England's culture of economic improvement between 1640 and 1720. It is often suggested that England in this period grew strikingly confident of its prospect for unlimited growth. Indeed, merchants, inventors, and others promised to...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-04-20
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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...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-03-21
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Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance
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Privatbanken sind wenig bekannte und auch erforschte Firmen in der Geschichte des Bankenwesens. Mit diesem Band liegt erstmals eine umfassende Gesamtgeschichte der österreichischenPrivatbanken vor, die von der Gründung der ersten Institute in der Frühen Neuzeit bis zur...
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Springer VS
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2017-12-19
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Das Reichsministerium für Wiederaufbau mit den zugehörigen Reichsbehörden steht im Mittelpunkt dieser Studie. Seine Aufgaben bestanden sowohl in der Ausführung der wirtschaftlichen Reparationen gemäß Versailler Friedensvertrag als auch in der Unterstützung des inneren...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-11-27
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This tenth part of Robert Leeson's collaborative biography of Friedrich August von Hayek explores Hayek’s thought on the free market and democracy. Using an unparalleled array of archival materials, Leeson reconstructs Hayek’s thinking as the notorious economist and his...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-22
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Archival Insights into the Evolution of Economics
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The financial and economic crisis that hit Europe in 2009 brought out the precariousness of the monetary union, accentuating the economic disequilibrium among European nations and strengthening Euro-skepticism.
The crisis served as a catalyst for long-standing and...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2017-11-10
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This edited volume is based on original essays first presented at the World Economic History Conference, Kyoto, Japan, in August 2015. It also includes three essays subsequently written especially for this volume. All of the essays focus on financial markets in the...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-11-09
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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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This book presents a study of the career of Charles R. Crane, a central player in President Woodrow Wilson’s entourage. In the wake of the U.S. intervention in the Great War, Crane participated in important diplomatic and fact-finding missions. Leclair follows Crane...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-10-26
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