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 ...
Share Trading, Fraud and the Crash of 1929: A Biography of Clarence Hatry
1st Edition
By Chris Swinson
December 18, 2020
This is a comprehensive biography of Clarence Charles Hatry, 1888-1965, an enigmatic and charismatic public figure. Hatry was the son of Jewish immigrant parents who became a company promoter and whose companies collapsed in 1929, leading to a crash on the London stock exchange. He was brought...
The Origins of Modern Banking in Spain: The Role of Monetary Plurality
1st Edition
Edited
By Carles Sudrià, Yolanda Blasco-Martel
December 18, 2020
This book analyses the formation of the Spanish banking system. It provides a general overview of European financial systems in operation during the mid-nineteenth century, followed by a detailed analysis of the economic and institutional changes that gave rise to a new form of banking in Spain.The...
Monetary Plurality in Local, Regional and Global Economies
1st Edition
Edited
By Georgina M. Gómez
June 30, 2020
The idea that each country should have one currency is so deeply rooted in people’s minds that the possibility of multiple and concurrent currencies seems unthinkable. Monetary systems contribute to problems of high unemployment and social distress during financial and economic crisis, so reforms ...
Monetary Statecraft in Brazil: 1808–2014
1st Edition
By Kurt Mettenheim
June 30, 2020
Brazil has one of the world’s fastest growing economies and a fascinating history underpinning its evolution. This book presents an analysis of the state’s role in monetary policy, from the latter days of Portuguese rule, to the present day. Based on a variety of unknown archival sources, this ...
The Globalization of Merchant Banking before 1850: The case of Huth & Co.
1st Edition
By Manuel Llorca-Jaña
June 30, 2020
London merchant bankers emerged during the 1820s in the wake of financial turmoil caused by the wars of American Independence, the Napoleonic campaigns and the Anglo-American war of 1812. Though the majority of merchant bankers remained cautious in their affairs, Huth & Co established an ...
Banking Modern America: Studies in regulatory history
1st Edition
Edited
By Jesse Stiller
December 12, 2019
The passage of the National Currency Act of 1863 gave the United States its first uniform paper money, its first nationally chartered and supervised commercial banks, and its first modern regulatory agency: the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. The law marked a milestone in the development...
Money, Politics and Power: Banking and Public Finance in Wartime England, 1694�96
1st Edition
By Richard A. Kleer
December 12, 2019
The Nine Years’ War with France was a period of great institutional innovation in public finance and of severe monetary turmoil for England. It saw the creation of the Bank of England; a sudden sharp fall in the external value of the pound; a massive undertaking to melt down and recoin most of the ...
Regulation of the London Stock Exchange: Share Trading, Fraud and Reform 1914�1945
1st Edition
By Chris Swinson
December 12, 2019
In 1914, the notion of statutory regulation of trading in shares was anathema to both the Government and the London Stock Exchange. By 1945, a statutory scheme of regulation had been introduced. This book serves to:Track the steps by which this outcome came about,Explain why the Exchange felt ...
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 ...