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Contents: 1. Introduction Richard Sylla and Gianni Toniolo Part I 2. Substitution for Prerequisites: Endigenous Institutions and Comparative Economic History C. Knick Harley, University of Western Ontario 3. The Role of Banks Richard Sylla 4. The Role of the State in Promoting Economic Development: The Russian Case and its General Implications Paul R. Gregory, University of Houston 5. Europe in an American Mirror: Reflections on Industrialization and Ideology William N. Parker, Yale University Part II 6. Britain N.F.R. Crafts, University of Warwick, S.J.Leybourne, University of Leeds and T.C. Mills, City University Business School 7. France Maurice Levy-Leboyer and Michel Lescure, University of Paris, Nanterre 8. Germany Richard Tilly, Universitat Munster 9. Italy Giovanni Federico, Universita di Pisa and Gianni Toniolo 10. Austria-Hungary David Good, University of Minnesota 11. Russia Olga Crisp, University of London Part III: On the Methodology of Economic History 12. Kinks, Tools, Spurts and Substitutes: Gerschenkron's Rhetoric of Relative Backwardness Donald N. McCloskey, University of Iowa
This work contains primary research texts regarding two centuries
of the development of corporate finance in the US and Great
Britain. It is designed to help scholars, financial managers, and
public policymakers to investigate the historical background of
issues in contemporary corporate finance.
This work contains primary research texts regarding two centuries
of the development of corporate finance in the US and Great
Britain. It is designed to help scholars, financial managers, and
public policymakers to investigate the historical background of
issues in contemporary corporate finance.
This work contains primary research texts regarding two centuries
of the development of corporate finance in the US and Great
Britain. It is designed to help scholars, financial managers, and
public policymakers to investigate the historical background of
issues in contemporary corporate finance.
This work contains primary research texts regarding two centuries
of the development of corporate finance in the US and Great
Britain. It is designed to help scholars, financial managers, and
public policymakers to investigate the historical background of
issues in contemporary corporate finance.
This work contains primary research texts regarding two centuries
of the development of corporate finance in the US and Great
Britain. It is designed to help scholars, financial managers, and
public policymakers to investigate the historical background of
issues in contemporary corporate finance.
This work contains primary research texts regarding two centuries
of the development of corporate finance in the US and Great
Britain. It is designed to help scholars, financial managers, and
public policymakers to investigate the historical background of
issues in contemporary corporate finance.
Through an examination of a wide variety of financial systems in
Europe, and North and South America over approximately 150 years of
change, this book demonstrates the key role that finance has played
in economic change, and in the development of diverse financial
systems. Insights into the primacy of the state's role in the
financial development of the pre-industrial era have not been
carried over into the historiography of the industrial era itself,
so the discoveries detailed in this book have never been brought
together in a systematic manner. This book therefore aims to
demonstrate through comparative historical analysis, the richness
of the history of modern financial systems, and to restore the
state to its primary role in the shaping of those systems. This
book makes an interesting contribution to financial historiography,
thus will be of interest to economists and financial, economic and
world historians.
Through an examination of a wide variety of financial systems in
Europe, and North and South America over approximately 150 years of
change, this book demonstrates the key role that finance has played
in economic change, and in the development of diverse financial
systems. Insights into the primacy of the state's role in the
financial development of the pre-industrial era have not been
carried over into the historiography of the industrial era itself,
so the discoveries detailed in this book have never been brought
together in a systematic manner. This book therefore aims to
demonstrate through comparative historical analysis, the richness
of the history of modern financial systems, and to restore the
state to its primary role in the shaping of those systems. This
book makes an interesting contribution to financial historiography,
thus will be of interest to economists and financial, economic and
world historians.
While serving as the first Treasury Secretary from 1789 to 1795,
Alexander Hamilton engineered a financial revolution. Hamilton
established the Treasury debt market, the dollar, and a central
bank, while strategically prompting private entrepreneurs to
establish securities markets and stock exchanges and encouraging
state governments to charter a number of commercial banks and other
business corporations. Yet despite a recent surge of interest in
Hamilton, U.S. financial modernization has not been fully
recognized as one of his greatest achievements. This book traces
the development of Hamilton's financial thinking, policies, and
actions through a selection of his writings. The financial
historians and Hamilton experts Richard Sylla and David J. Cowen
provide commentary that demonstrates the impact Hamilton had on the
modern economic system, guiding readers through Hamilton's
distinguished career. The book showcases Hamilton's thoughts on the
nation's founding, the need for a strong central government,
confronting problems such as a depreciating paper currency and weak
public credit, and the architecture of the financial system. His
great state papers on public credit, the national bank, the mint,
and manufactures instructed reform of the nation's finances and
jumpstarted economic growth. Hamilton practiced what he preached:
he played a key role in the founding of three banks and a
manufacturing corporation, and his deft political maneuvering and
economic savvy saved the fledgling republic's economy during the
country's first full-blown financial crisis in 1792. Sylla and
Cowen center Hamilton's writings on finance among his most
important accomplishments, making his brilliance as an economic
policy maker accessible to all interested in this Founding Father's
legacy.
While serving as the first Treasury Secretary from 1789 to 1795,
Alexander Hamilton engineered a financial revolution. Hamilton
established the Treasury debt market, the dollar, and a central
bank, while strategically prompting private entrepreneurs to
establish securities markets and stock exchanges and encouraging
state governments to charter a number of commercial banks and other
business corporations. Yet despite a recent surge of interest in
Hamilton, U.S. financial modernization has not been fully
recognized as one of his greatest achievements. This book traces
the development of Hamilton's financial thinking, policies, and
actions through a selection of his writings. The financial
historians and Hamilton experts Richard Sylla and David J. Cowen
provide commentary that demonstrates the impact Hamilton had on the
modern economic system, guiding readers through Hamilton's
distinguished career. The book showcases Hamilton's thoughts on the
nation's founding, the need for a strong central government,
confronting problems such as a depreciating paper currency and weak
public credit, and the architecture of the financial system. His
great state papers on public credit, the national bank, the mint,
and manufactures instructed reform of the nation's finances and
jumpstarted economic growth. Hamilton practiced what he preached:
he played a key role in the founding of three banks and a
manufacturing corporation, and his deft political maneuvering and
economic savvy saved the fledgling republic's economy during the
country's first full-blown financial crisis in 1792. Sylla and
Cowen center Hamilton's writings on finance among his most
important accomplishments, making his brilliance as an economic
policy maker accessible to all interested in this Founding Father's
legacy.
In this unique, well-illustrated book, readers learn how fifty
financial corporations came to dominate the U.S. banking system and
their impact on the nation's political, social, and economic
growth. A story that spans more than two centuries of war, crisis,
and opportunity, this account reminds readers that American banking
was never a fixed enterprise but has evolved in tandem with the
country. More than 225 years have passed since Alexander Hamilton
created one of the nation's first commercial banks. Over time,
these institutions have changed hands, names, and locations,
reflecting a wave of mergers, acquisitions, and other restructuring
efforts that echo changes in American finance. Some names, such as
Bank of America and Wells Fargo, will be familiar to readers. The
origins of others, including Zions Bancorporation, founded by
Brigham Young and owned by the Mormon Church until 1960, are
surprising. Exploring why some banks failed and others thrived,
this book wonders, in light of the 2008 financial crisis, whether
recent consolidations have reached or even exceeded economically
rational limits. A key text for navigating the complex terrain of
American finance, this volume draws a fascinating family tree for
projecting the financial future of a nation.
This book, the product of a unique international scholarly
collaboration sponsored jointly by the American Council of Learned
Societies and the Soviet Academy of Sciences, provides a
comprehensive survey on international banking from 1870 to 1914. In
that period international investment reached dimensions previously
unknown, and the banking systems of the world achieved a degree of
internationalization without precedent. The book's authors,
twenty-five scholars from fifteen countries, are the acknowledged
experts in their fields. They detail the origin and development of
internationally oriented banks in each major country, and explain
their role in foreign investment and industrial finance. They look
at all areas of the world that were involved in international
investment, either as investors, recipients of investment, or both.
The definitive work on international banking from 1870 to 1914,
this book will interest scholars and students in financial and
banking history, bankers and economists in the finanical industry,
and general historians.
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