Financial History
Histories of Tax Evasion, Avoidance and Resistance
1st Edition
Edited
By Korinna Schönhärl, Gisela Hürlimann, Dorothea Rohde
August 26, 2024
Tax evasion, tax avoidance and tax resistance are widespread phenomena in political, economic, social and fiscal history from antiquity through medieval, early modern and modern times. Histories of Tax Evasion, Avoidance and Resistance shows how different groups and individuals around the globe ...
A History of Public Banking in Portugal in the 19th and 20th Centuries
1st Edition
By Pedro Lains
January 09, 2023
This book examines the history of what became one of Portugal’s largest banks, the Caixa Geral de Depósitos. The bank was founded in 1876 by the state to run public deposits, and evolved into a savings bank, catering for both public and private deposits. Its history goes beyond the history of ...
European Investment in Greece in the Nineteenth Century: A Behavioural Approach to Financial History
1st Edition
By Korinna Schönhärl
May 06, 2022
Banking historiography often does not sufficiently take into account bankers’ deliberations of their decision making, but rather limits investigation to considerations of profit maximisation. This book shows that the decision-making processes of nineteenth-century bankers contemplating high-risk ...
Argentina's Parallel Currency: The Economy of the Poor
1st Edition
By Georgina M Gomez
January 20, 2016
Analyzes the rise and fall of the Red de Trueque (launched in 1995 by a group of environmentalists who exchanged goods and services at their own 'market' using a system of mutual credit) in Argentina. This book identifies rules of governance and sustainability for institutional settings in which ...
Baring Brothers and the Birth of Modern Finance
1st Edition
By Peter E Austin
January 20, 2016
In 1995, the Baring Brothers collapsed over a weekend, brought down by the 'rogue trader' Nick Leeson. Utilizing British and American archives, this work charts Baring Brothers development from wool merchants to one of the most powerful global financial institutions. It also analyses the errors ...
Benjamin Franklin and the Invention of Microfinance
1st Edition
By Bruce H. Yenawine
January 20, 2016
In life, Benjamin Franklin sought to manage debt, organize credit, build capital and promote virtue. After death, he continued this work by leaving a codicil to his last will and testament, bequeathing £2,000 to Boston and Philadelphia. This study examines Franklin’s codicil and the financial ...
Bonded Labour and Debt in the Indian Ocean World
1st Edition
Edited
By Gwyn Campbell, Alessandro Stanziani
January 20, 2016
This volume of essays contains case studies of debt bondage covering the impact of an expanding globalized economy, increased commercialization, colonial and post-colonial societies, and emerging economies....
Camille Gutt and Postwar International Finance
1st Edition
By Jean F Crombois
January 20, 2016
As a businessman, financier, diplomat, minister, and first Managing Director of the IMF, Camille Gutt (1884–1971) was involved in all the important financial negotiations between the 1920s and the 1950s. Using Gutt’s personal archives as his starting point, Crombois examines the rise and fall of ...
Convergence and Divergence of National Financial Systems: Evidence from the Gold Standards, 1871-1971
1st Edition
Edited
By Patrice Baubeau, Anders Ogren
January 20, 2016
This collection of essays aims to form a focused, original and constructive approach to examining the question of convergence and divergence in Europe....
Debt and Slavery in the Mediterranean and Atlantic Worlds
1st Edition
By Alessandro Stanziani
January 20, 2016
Filling a significant gap in the historiography, the essays in this volume show that debt slavery has played a crucial role in the economic history of numerous societies which continues even today....
Federal Banking in Brazil: Policies and Competitive Advantages
1st Edition
By Kurt e von Mettenheim
January 20, 2016
This study is the first in a decade to provide an overview of banking in Brazil. It is argued that the big three federal banks have long provided essential policy alternatives and, since the liberalization of the industry in the 1990s, have realized competitive advantages over private and foreign ...
Financial Markets and the Banking Sector: Roles and Responsibilities in a Global World
1st Edition
Edited
By Elisabeth Paulet
January 20, 2016
Based on both theoretical and empirical approaches, the essays in this volume emphasise the role of ethics in a globalized economy....