Stanley L. Engerman / Philip T. Hoffman / Jean-Laurent Rosenthal / Kenneth L. Sokoloff (eds.)

Finance, Intermediaries, and Economic Development

Herausgeber: Engerman, Stanley L.; Rosenthal, Jean-Laurent; Hoffman, Philip T.

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume includes ten essays dealing with financial and other forms of economic intermediation in Europe, Canada, and the United States since the seventeenth century. Each relates the development of institutions to economic change and describes their evolution over time, as well as discussing several different forms of intermediation, and deals with significant economic and historical issues.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 362
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 738g
• ISBN-13: 9780521820547
• ISBN-10: 0521820545
• Artikelnr.: 26931057

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors; Preface; Introduction; Part I. Financial
Intermediaries in Europe: 1. Markets and institutions in the rise of London
as a financial center in the seventeenth century Larry Neal and Steven
Quinn; 2. The Paris bourse, 1724-1814: experiments in microstructure Eugene
N. White; 3. No exit: notarial bankruptcies and the evolution of financial
intermediation in nineteenth century Paris Philip T. Hoffman, Giles
Postel-Vinay, and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal; Part II. Financial Intermediaries
in the Americas: 4. The mortgage market in Upper Canada: window on a
pioneer economy Angela Redish; 5. Integration of US capital markets:
southern stock markets and the case of New Orleans, 1871-1913 John B.
Legler and Richard Sylla; 6. The transition from building and loan to
savings and loan, 1890-1940 Kenneth A. Snowden; Part III. Other Forms of
Intermediation: 7. Intermediaries in the US market for Technology,
1870-1920 Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Kenneth L. Sokoloff; 8. Beyond Chinatown:
overseas Chinese intermediaries on the multiethnic North-American Pacific
coast in the age of financial capital Diane Newell; 9. Finance and capital
accumulation in a planned economy: the agricultural surplus hypothesis and
Soviet economic development, 1928-39 Robert C. Allen; 10. Was adherence to
the gold standard a 'good housekeeping seal of approval' during the
interwar period? Michael Bordo, Michael Edelstein, and Hugh Rockoff;
Afterword: about Lance Davis; Index.