Premodern Financial Systems
Author : Raymond Goldsmith
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Premodern Financial Systems
Author : Raymond W. Goldsmith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,7 MB
Release : 1987-07-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521329477
Book Description
This book describes the financial superstructure and links it to the essential characteristics of the infrastructure of nearly a dozen societies.
Comparing Financial Systems
Author : Franklin Allen
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 44,99 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262011778
Book Description
Why do different countries have such different financial systems? Is one system better than the other? This text argues that the view that market-based systems are best is simplistic, and suggests that a more nuanced approach is necessary.
Political Institutions and Financial Development
Author : Stephen H. Haber
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 19,37 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780804756921
Book Description
The essays in this volume employ the insights and techniques of political science, economics and history to provide a fresh answer to this question.
The Monetary Systems of the Greeks and Romans
Author : W. V. Harris
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 28,13 MB
Release : 2010-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 019161517X
Book Description
Most people have some idea what Greeks and Romans coins looked like, but few know how complex Greek and Roman monetary systems eventually became. The contributors to this volume are numismatists, ancient historians, and economists intent on investigating how these systems worked and how they both did and did not resemble a modern monetary system. Why did people first start using coins? How did Greeks and Romans make payments, large or small? What does money mean in Greek tragedy? Was the Roman Empire an integrated economic system? This volume can serve as an introduction to such questions, but it also offers the specialist the results of original research.
The Cash Nexus
Author : Niall Ferguson
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 46,77 MB
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0141976411
Book Description
The Cash Nexus is the controversial history of money's central place in the world, from Niall Ferguson, bestselling author of Empire and Civilization Generations of historians have shied away from the truth behind the cliche: money makes the world go around. International bestseller Niall Ferguson answers the big questions about finance and its crucial place in bringing happiness and despair, warfare and welfare, boom and crash to nations buffeted by the onward march of history. Starting in 1700 and ending today, The Cash Nexus is a dazzling, powerful and controversial explanation of modern world history and the fundamental force that lurks behind it all. About the author: Niall Ferguson is one of Britain's most renowned historians. He is the author of Paper and Iron, The House of Rothschild, The Pity of War, Empire, Colossus, The War of the World, The Ascent of Money, High Financier, Civilization and The Great Degeneration. He has written and presented six highly successful television series for Channel Four: Empire, American Colossus, The War of the World, The Ascent of Money, Civilization and China: Triumph and Turmoil.
Pre-Modern European Economy
Author : Paolo Malanima
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 31,68 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9004178228
Book Description
The book provides an overall reconstruction of the European economy, in the global context, from the High Middle Ages until the beginning of Modern Growth in the 19th century.
Pre-Modern European Economy
Author : Paolo Malanima
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 28,50 MB
Release : 2009-08-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9047440579
Book Description
The book deals with the characters and evolution of the European economy from the high Middle Ages until the start of modern growth in the 19th century. Europe is always set in a global context and the European specific features are analysed on the background of the world economy. The main aim of the book is to present a clear picture of the structure and organisation of the European pre-modern economy, specifying its features, institutions, constraints and differences with other traditional coeval economies. The path followed starts from the demographic characters, the techniques, the sectors (agriculture, trade, industry), the output, and continues with the demand side (consumption, investment, public expense). The last chapter recalls the main features of the pre-modern economy in a more formal way. The book is the only available work dealing with the formation of the European economy and its features over the long term, that is from the 10th until the 19th century.
Mountains of Debt
Author : Michael Veseth
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 31,39 MB
Release : 1990-11-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0195362454
Book Description
Like the United States today, Renaissance Florence and Victorian Britain were the richest, most dynamic economic systems of their times. Yet each succumbed to a fiscal crisis brought on by public debt and taxation and eventually fell into long-term economic decline. Now, public debt and taxation dominate the America policy agenda. Must the United States follow the same dismal pattern of fiscal crisis and economic decline? Mountains of Debt argues that it is not too late for the United States to change directions and suggests a comprehensive program for reform of American fiscal institutions that would reduce the deficit problem and at the same time reverse the long-term structural trends that are both the cause and the effect of the fiscal crisis today. Offering proposals for reducing the deficit, this new analysis could alter the current course of the United States economy.
World Financial Orders
Author : Paul Langley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 36,20 MB
Release : 2003-08-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1134521405
Book Description
World Financial Orders challenges the predominance of neo-liberalism as a mode of knowledge about contemporary world finance, and claims that it neglects the social and political bases as well as the malign consequences of change. He looks to the field of International Political Economy (IPE) to construct an alternative mode, one that critically restores society and politics. An 'historical' approach to IPE is advanced that accounts for modern world finance since the seventeenth century as a succession of structurally distinct hierarchical social orders. This book will be of interest to those working in the field of IPE and to those scholars, researchers and students from across the social sciences who seek to challenge the common-sense, neo-liberal explanation of contemporary world finance.
