Finance, intermediaries, and economic development

Titel: Finance, intermediaries, and economic development / ed. by Stanley L. Engerman ...
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Veröffentlicht: Cambridge ˜[u.a.]œ : Univ. Press, 2003
Umfang: IX, 350 S. : Ill. ; 24 cm
Format: E-Book
Sprache: Englisch
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Vorliegende Ausgabe: Online-Ausg.: 2004. - Online-Ressource.
ISBN: 0511061722 (Sekundärausgabe) ; 9780511061721 (Sekundärausgabe)
  • List of contributors
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Part I
  • Financial Intermediaries in Europe
  • 1
  • Markets and institutions in the rise of London as a financial center in the seventeenth century
  • 2
  • The Paris bourse, 1724âÇô1814: experiments in microstructure
  • 3
  • No exit: notarial bankruptcies and the evolution of financial intermediation in nineteenth century
  • Part II
  • Financial Intermediaries in the Americas
  • 4
  • The mortgage market in Upper Canada: window on a pioneer economy
  • 5
  • Integration of US capital markets: southern stock markets and the case of New Orleans, 1871âÇô1913
  • 6
  • The transition from building and loan to savings and loan, 1890âÇô1940
  • Part III
  • Other Forms of Intermediation
  • 7
  • Intermediaries in the US market for Technology, 1870âÇô1920
  • 8
  • Beyond Chinatown: overseas Chinese intermediaries on the multiethnic North-American Pacific coast in the age of financial capital
  • 9
  • Finance and capital accumulation in a planned economy: the agricultural surplus hypothesis and Soviet economic development, 1928âÇô1939
  • 10
  • Was adherence to the gold standard a 'good housekeeping seal of approval' during the interwar period?
  • Afterword
  • Index