Inbunden, Engelska, 2009

The Origins and Development of Financial Markets and Institutions

From the Seventeenth Century to the Present

Av Jeremy Atack, Larry Neal

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Beskrivning

Collectively, mankind has never had it so good despite periodic economic crises of which the current sub-prime crisis is merely the latest example. Much of this success is attributable to the increasing efficiency of the world's financial institutions as finance has proved to be one of the most important causal factors in economic performance. In a series of insightful essays, financial and economic historians examine how financial innovations from the seventeenth century to the present have continually challenged established institutional arrangements, forcing change and adaptation by governments, financial intermediaries, and financial markets. Where these have been successful, wealth creation and growth have followed. When they failed, growth slowed and sometimes economic decline has followed. These essays illustrate the difficulties of co-ordinating financial innovations in order to sustain their benefits for the wider economy, a theme that will be of interest to policy makers as well as economic historians.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum: 2009-03-16
Mått: 158 x 235 x 30 mm
Vikt: 920 g
Format: Inbunden
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 496
Förlag: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521895170

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Jeremy Atack is Professor of Economics and Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. He is a research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and serves as co-editor of the Journal of Economic History. He is co-author of A New Economic View of American History (1994). Larry Neal is Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he was founding director of the European Union Center. He is a visiting professor at the London School of Economics and a research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). He is the author of many books, including The Rise of Financial Capitalism (Cambridge, 1990) and The Economics of Europe and the European Union (Cambridge, 2007).

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Review of the hardback: 'Atack and Neal bring together a brilliant, provocative and authoritative set of essays on financial history. The essays share the desire to link social, political, and economy history with finance, to place financial development within the story line that connects financial changes to the development of commerce, industry, and politics. The coverage is broad in space and time, covering all aspects of finance - money, banking, central banking, securities markets, and financial crises - in many countries and over four centuries of change. The authors are the leading authorities in their field. Although the articles are carefully argued and rich in quantitative detail, they are exceptionally lively because they combine the discipline of economic analysis with a broader historical narrative that brings to life the personal histories of financiers as part of the broader arc of European and American financial development. The book is more than a collection of great studies of the past; it is also a tool to teach historians how to think about finance, and to teach financiers how to think about history.' Charles Calomiris, Columbia University Graduate School of Business

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