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UK Monetary Policy from Devaluation to Thatcher, 1967-82
Inbunden, 2014
1128 kr
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This book charts the course of monetary policy in the UK from 1967 to 1982. It shows how events such as the 1967 devaluation, the collapse of Bretton Woods, the stagflation of the 1970s, and the IMF loan of 1976 all shaped policy. It shows that the 'monetarist' experiment of the 1980s was based on …
Excise Taxation and the Origins of Public Debt
Inbunden, 2013
1128 kr
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This book offers a wholesale reinterpretation of both the introduction of excise taxation in Great Britain in the 1640s and the genesis of the Financial Revolution of the 1690s. By analysing hitherto unpublished manuscript and print sources, D'Maris Coffman resolves divergent accounts of these …
Great Crash of 1929
A Reconciliation of Theory and Evidence
Av A. Kabiri
Inbunden, 2014
1240 kr
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Understanding the American stock market boom and bust of the 1920s is vital for formulating policies to combat the potentially deleterious effects of busts on the economy. Using new data, Kabiri explains what led to the 1920s stock market boom and 1929 crash and looks at whether 1929 was a bubble …
Sovereign Debt and International Financial Control
The Middle East and the Balkans, 1870–1914
Inbunden, 2015
1576 kr
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This book revisits an important chapter of financial history in the Middle East and the Balkans from 1870 1914. During this period, capital flows in the form of sovereign debt increased rapidly throughout the region. The spiral of heavy government borrowing eventually culminated in defaults on …
Dangerous and Dishonest Men: The International Bankers of Louis XIV's France
Av G. Rowlands
Inbunden, 2014
1352 kr
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At the start of the eighteenth century Louis XIV needed to remit huge sums of money abroad to support his armies during the War of the Spanish Succession. This book explains how international bankers moved French money across Europe, and how the foreign exchange system was so overloaded by the …
Policy Signals and Market Responses
A 50 Year History of Zambia's Relationship with Foreign Capital
Inbunden, 2015
1240 kr
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The study presents archival evidence to show how President Kaunda raised political and economic exclusivity in Zambia in the early years of Zambia's independence, and how this retarded capital investment. Despite formal reforms and a new government, this institutional mechanism still dominates and …
Money, Prices and Wages
Essays in Honour of Professor Nicholas Mayhew
Av M. Allen, D. Coffman
Inbunden, 2014
1240 kr
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Nick Mayhew has made key contributions to fields as diverse as medieval European monetary history, numismatics, financial history, price and wage history, and macroeconomic history. These essays, in his honour, demonstrate the analytical power and chronological reach of the novel interdisciplinary …
Marine Insurance
Origins and Institutions, 1300-1850
Inbunden, 2015
1688 kr
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Since its invention in Italy in the fourteenth century, marine insurance has provided merchants with capital protection in times of crisis, thus oiling the gears of trade and commerce. With a focus on customs, laws, and organisational structures, this book reveals the Italian origins of marine …
Money and Finance in Central Europe during the Later Middle Ages
Av Roman Zaoral
Inbunden, 2015
1352 kr
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The wealth of the Central European archives, particularly in urban records, has not been fully realised by Western European historians. However, the records are not always straightforward to use and many studies tackle the methodological problems inherent in gathering and analysing medieval …
Conservative Economic Policymaking and the Birth of Thatcherism, 1964-1979
Inbunden, 2015
1530 kr
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In this book, Adrian Williamson investigates the processes by which Thatcherism became established in Tory thinking, and questions to what extent the politician herself is responsible for Thatcherism within the Conservative Party.
Constructing a Fiscal Military State in Eighteenth Century Spain
Inbunden, 2015
1576 kr
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Historically, Spain has often been represented as a financial failure, a state limited by its absolutist monarchy and doomed to fiscal and financial failure without hope of lasting growth. The collapse of the Spanish state at the beginning of the nineteenth century would seem to bear out this view …
Accounting at Durham Cathedral Priory
Management and Control of a Major Ecclesiastical Corporation 1083-1540
Inbunden, 2015
1313 kr
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This study utilizes the rich archives which survive at Durham Cathedral to examine the way in which accounting methods and systems were adopted and adapted to manage income and expenses, assets and liabilities in changing economic environments.
Credit and Trade in Later Medieval England, 1353-1532
Inbunden, 2016
1352 kr
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This book challenges the notion that economic crises aremodern phenomena through its exploration of the tumultuous ‘credit-crunch’ ofthe later Middle Ages. It illustrates clearly how influences such as the BlackDeath, inter-European warfare, climate change and a bullion famine occasionedsevere and …
Britain and European Monetary Cooperation, 1964-1979
Inbunden, 2015
1128 kr
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The collapse of the Bretton Woods system in the early 1970s resulted in a transition to fluctuating rather than fixed currency system. This brought sterling into the turmoil of the world currency markets, and by the end of the 1970s, sterling had quietly ended its role as an international currency. …
Mutual Insurance 1550-2015
From Guild Welfare and Friendly Societies to Contemporary Micro-Insurers
Inbunden, 2016
1240 kr
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In the modern Western world, we tend to be insured by the state or for-profit insurers. We have privileged this system over mutual or micro-insurance, whose long and rich history we tend to forget. Yet, mutual and micro-insurance is becoming increasingly important, both in the Western and in the …
Antonio Serra and the Economics of Good Government
Av Sophus Reinert, Rosario Patalano
Inbunden, 2016
1128 kr
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In this book some of the world's leading economists and experts on Serra explore the enduring appeal of his 1613 Breve trattato.
British Imperialism and the Making of Colonial Currency Systems
Av Wadan Narsey
Inbunden, 2016
1464 kr
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Based on archival research covering more than two centuries and most former British colonies (West Indies, India, Singapore, Malaya, West Africa and East Africa), this book is a revisionist history of the British imperial manipulations of colonial currency systems to facilitate the rise of sterling …
UK Monetary Policy from Devaluation to Thatcher, 1967-82
Häftad, 2014
1128 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book charts the course of monetary policy in the UK from 1967 to 1982. It shows how events such as the 1967 devaluation, the collapse of Bretton Woods, the stagflation of the 1970s, and the IMF loan of 1976 all shaped policy. It shows that the 'monetarist' experiment of the 1980s was based on …
Excise Taxation and the Origins of Public Debt
Häftad, 2013
1128 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book offers a wholesale reinterpretation of both the introduction of excise taxation in Great Britain in the 1640s and the genesis of the Financial Revolution of the 1690s. By analysing hitherto unpublished manuscript and print sources, D'Maris Coffman resolves divergent accounts of these …
Great Crash of 1929
A Reconciliation of Theory and Evidence
Av A. Kabiri
Häftad, 2015
568 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Understanding the American stock market boom and bust of the 1920s is vital for formulating policies to combat the potentially deleterious effects of busts on the economy. Using new data, Kabiri explains what led to the 1920s stock market boom and 1929 crash and looks at whether 1929 was a bubble …
Dangerous and Dishonest Men: The International Bankers of Louis XIV's France
Av G. Rowlands
Häftad, 2015
1352 kr
Lägg i varukorg
At the start of the eighteenth century Louis XIV needed to remit huge sums of money abroad to support his armies during the War of the Spanish Succession. This book explains how international bankers moved French money across Europe, and how the foreign exchange system was so overloaded by the …
Money, Prices and Wages
Essays in Honour of Professor Nicholas Mayhew
Av M. Allen, D. Coffman
Häftad, 2015
568 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Nick Mayhew has made key contributions to fields as diverse as medieval European monetary history, numismatics, financial history, price and wage history, and macroeconomic history. These essays, in his honour, demonstrate the analytical power and chronological reach of the novel interdisciplinary …
British Imperialism and the Making of Colonial Currency Systems
Av Wadan Narsey
Häftad, 2019
1464 kr
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Based on archival research covering more than two centuries and most former British colonies (West Indies, India, Singapore, Malaya, West Africa and East Africa), this book is a revisionist history of the British imperial manipulations of colonial currency systems to facilitate the rise of sterling …
Taxation, Politics, and Protest in Ireland, 1662–2016
Av Douglas Kanter, Patrick Walsh
Inbunden, 2019
1800 kr
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This book examines the politics of taxation in Ireland between the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries. Combining political, economic, and policy history, it contributes to a growing interdisciplinary literature on public finance, while also providing context for the ongoing debate on taxation …
War Within
Private Interests and the Fiscal State in Early-Modern Europe
Av Joël Félix, Anne Dubet
Häftad, 2018
1688 kr
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The international financial crisis of 2007-08 and the ensuing scandals continue to raise important debates about the role of institutions in maintaining trust and fighting corruption, as well as in sustaining economic growth and political stability in a globalized world. This book proposes to …
Financial Innovation and Resilience
A Comparative Perspective on the Public Banks of Naples (1462-1808)
Av Lilia Costabile, Larry Neal
Häftad, 2019
1240 kr
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As Ignazio Visco, Governor of the Bank of Italy, says in his Foreword, all economic policy makers today need to re-examine our history to help them confront the challenges of today. This edited volume focuses specifically on the theme of financial innovation and how financial resiliency was …
Enterprise, Money and Credit in England before the Black Death 1285–1349
Häftad, 2019
1464 kr
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This book charts the contributions made to the development of the late medieval English economy by enterprise, money, and credit in a period which saw its major export trade in wool, which earned most of its money-supply, suffer from prolonged periods of warfare, high taxation, adverse weather, and …
Success of English Land Tax Administration 1643–1733
Häftad, 2019
904 kr
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This book provides a thorough review of early English land taxes of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. It is a polemical work which is critical of the institutional English state narratives including Brewer’s ‘Sinews of Power’ and North and Weingast’s ‘credible commitment’ and some …
Worlds of Taxation
The Political Economy of Taxing, Spending, and Redistribution Since 1945
Av Gisela Huerlimann, W. Elliot Brownlee m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
1857 kr
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This book provides a historical understanding of current debates over tax reform and offers a comparative framework for discussing the relationship between fiscal policy and the distribution of income and wealth. Topics covered include the evolution of income taxation since World War II; the turn …
Jacob Schiff and the Art of Risk
American Financing of Japan's War with Russia (1904-1905)
Av Adam Gower
Häftad, 2019
904 kr
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Jacob Henry Schiff (1847–1920), a German-born American Jewish banker, facilitated critical loans for Japan in the early twentieth century. Working on behalf of the firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., Schiff’s assertiveness in favour of Japan separated him from his fellow German Jewish financiers and the …
