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Reforming the World Monetary System: Fritz Machlup and the Bellagio Group

1st Edition

By Carol M Connell
January 20, 2016

Focusing on Fritz Machlup, Connell presents the story of the Bellagio Group and its contribution to modern finance. Initiated by Machlup the Bellagio Group was made up of thirty-two non-government academic economists. During the years between 1964 and 1977 the Group met eighteen times and made a ...

Slave Agriculture and Financial Markets in Antebellum America: The Bank of the United States in Mississippi, 1831-1852

1st Edition

By Richard Holcombe Kilbourne Jr
January 20, 2016

Offers the study of Antebellum southern slavery and the credit system. This work explains how the Bank of the United States supported the government's and the nation's credit abroad by providing seemingly limitless credit facilities to southern planters, especially in the territories along the ...

Taxation and Debt in the Early Modern City

1st Edition

Edited By Michael Limberger, José Ignacio Andrés Ucendo
January 20, 2016

Fiscal relations between states and cities in early modern Europe is a major concern for economic and financial historians. This collection of eleven essays is based on new research using documentary evidence from local and national archives from across Europe....

The Development of International Insurance

1st Edition

Edited By Robin Pearson
January 20, 2016

Despite their economic and social importance, there are relatively few book-length studies of national insurance industries. This collection of nine essays by a group of international experts redresses this balance; providing an extensive geographical and thematic spread, linked via an extensive ...

The Development of the Art Market in England: Money as Muse, 1730–1900

1st Edition

By Thomas M Bayer, John R. Page
January 20, 2016

This book gives a comprehensive account of the history and underlying economics of the modern art market in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain....

The Political Economy of Sentiment: Paper Credit and the Scottish Enlightenment in Early Republic Boston, 1780-1820

1st Edition

By Jose R Torre
January 20, 2016

Situates changes in the nature of money and the rise of sophisticated financial structures at the centre of the Enlightenment. This work argues that paper credit instruments were causal - critical to the larger epistemological and psychological changes associated with the Enlightenment's ...

The Revenue Imperative: The Union's Financial Policies During the American Civil War

1st Edition

By Jane S Flaherty
January 20, 2016

Provides a comprehensive overview of the Union financial policies during the American Civil War. This work argues that the revenue imperative, the need to keep pace with the burgeoning expenses of the conflict, governed the development of fiscal policy....

The Rise and Fall of the American System: Nationalism and the Development of the American Economy, 1790-1837

1st Edition

By Songho Ha
January 20, 2016

The American System was implemented by the US government after the American-British War of 1812 to develop a national domestic market. This study explores the rise and fall of the system between its inception in 1790 and the Panic of 1837....

Towards Modern Public Finance: The American War with Mexico, 1846-1848

1st Edition

By James W Cummings
January 20, 2016

Addresses the financing of the American-Mexican War of 1846-48. This study argues that the successful financing of the American-Mexican War had a long-term beneficial effect on American financial institutions and markets....

Virginia and the Panic of 1819: The First Great Depression and the Commonwealth

1st Edition

By Clyde A Haulman
January 20, 2016

Argues that the Panic of 1819 was America's first experience with a modern boom-bust cycle, and most importantly, much more than a banking panic resulting from the mismanagement of the newly created second Bank of the United States and a number of state chartered banks....