Financial History
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....
Gambling on the American Dream: Atlantic City and the Casino Era
1st Edition
By James R Karmel
January 20, 2016
Provides a historical perspective for understanding the exponential growth of casinos in the United States since 1990, by telling the story of Atlantic City, New Jersey since the 1970s. This work uses oral history to focus on the human stories of the region in addition to the broader story of ...
Government Debts and Financial Markets in Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Fausto Piola Caselli
January 20, 2016
Contains essays by historians of economic and financial history. It illuminates the relationships between government indebtedness and the development of financial markets in Europe from the late Middle Ages to the late twentieth century....
Guilty Money: The City of London in Victorian and Edwardian Culture, 1815-1914
1st Edition
By Ranald C Michie
January 20, 2016
This is an engaging study of the place occupied by the City of London within British cultural life during the Victorian and Edwardian periods. Michie uses both literary and popular novels to examine socio-economic representations during this period....
Money in the Pre-Industrial World: Bullion, Debasements and Coin Substitutes
1st Edition
Edited
By John H Munro
January 20, 2016
The papers in this edited volume discuss key elements of monetarism, including coin denominations, the role of bullion and case studies of substitute moneys....