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This book explores the changing boundaries and relationships
between market and state from the seventeenth to the twentieth
century. Money and Markets celebrates Martin Daunton's
distinguished career by bringing together essays from leading
economic, social and cultural historians, many being colleagues and
former students. Throughout his career, Dauntonhas focused on the
relationship between structure and agency, how institutional
structures create capacities and path dependencies, and how
institutions are themselves shaped by agency and contingency - what
Braudel referred to as 'turning the hour glass twice'. This volume
reflects that focus, combining new research on the financing of the
British fiscal-military state before and during the Napoleonic
wars, its property institutions, and thelonger-term economic
consequences of Sir Robert Peel. There are also chapters on the
birth of the Eurodollar market, Conservative fiscal policy from the
1960s to the 1980s, the impact of neoliberalism on welfare policy
and more broadly, the failed attempt to build an airport in the
Thames Estuary in the 1970s, and the political economy of time in
Britain since 1945. While much of the focus is on Britain, and
British finance in a global economy, the volumealso reflects
Daunton's more recent study of international political economy with
essays on the French contribution to nineteenth-century
globalization, Prussian state finances at the time of the 1848
revolution, Imperial German monetary policy, the role of
international charity in the mixed economy of welfare and
neoliberal governance, and the material politics of energy
consumption from the 1930s to the 1960s. JULIAN HOPPIT is Astor
Professor of British History at University College London. ADRIAN
LEONARD is Associate Director of the Centre for Financial History
at the University of Cambridge. DUNCAN NEEDHAM is Dean and Senior
Tutor at Darwin College, University of Cambridge. CONTRIBUTORS:
Martin Chick, Sean Eddie, Matthew Hilton, Julian Hoppit, Seung-Woo
Kim, Adrian Leonard, Duncan Needham, Charles Read, Bernhard Rieger,
Richard Rodger, Sabine Schneider, HirokiShin, David Todd, James
Tomlinson, Frank Trentmann, Adrian Williamson
'An invaluable primer to some of the underlying tensions behind
contemporary political debate' Financial Times It has always been
an important part of British self-image to see the United Kingdom
as an ancient, organic and sensibly managed place, in striking
contrast to the convulsions of other European countries. Yet, as
Julian Hoppit makes clear in this fascinating and surprising book,
beneath the complacent surface the United Kingdom has in fact been
in a constant, often very tense argument with itself about how it
should be run and, most significantly, who should pay for what. The
book takes its argument from an eighteenth century cartoon which
shows the central state as the 'Dreadful Monster', gorging itself
at the dinner table on all the taxes it can grab. Meanwhile the
'Poor Relations' - Scotland, Wales and Ireland, both poor because
of tax but also poor in the sense of needing special treatment -
are viewed in London as an endless 'drain on the state'. With
drastically different levels of prosperity, population, industry,
agriculture and accessibility between the United Kingdom's
different nations, what is a fair basis for paying for the state?
This book provides an authoritative general view of England between the Glorious Revolution and the deathS of George I and Isaac Newton. It is a very wide-ranging survey, looking at politics, religion, economy, society, and culture. It also places England in its British, European, and world contexts. An annotated bibliography provides a guide through a vast minefield of secondary literature.
This major study considers bankruptcy in eighteenth-century England. Typically, business enterprise in this period has been seen as a success story - where men like Boulton, Watt, Wedgwood and Arkwright helped to forge the Industrial Revolution. But this is a myth, for thousands of businesses failed, hounded by their creditors into bankruptcy and ignominy. This book charts their history by looking at the incidence and causes of bankruptcy and by examining contemporary reactions to these. In this way, not only is evidence produced to improve our understanding of the nature of business enterprise, but the dynamics of the eighteenth-century economy over both the short and the long term are uncovered.
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