Premodern Financial Systems
Author: Raymond Goldsmith
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Premodern Financial Systems
Author: Raymond W. Goldsmith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1987-07-31
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0521329477
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book describes the financial superstructure and links it to the essential characteristics of the infrastructure of nearly a dozen societies.
Comparing Financial Systems
Author: Franklin Allen
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 524
ISBN-13: 9780262011778
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy do different countries have such different financial systems? Is one system better than the other? This text argues that the view that market-based systems are best is simplistic, and suggests that a more nuanced approach is necessary.
Political Institutions and Financial Development
Author: Stephen H. Haber
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9780804756921
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe essays in this volume employ the insights and techniques of political science, economics and history to provide a fresh answer to this question.
The Monetary Systems of the Greeks and Romans
Author: W. V. Harris
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2010-04-29
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 019161517X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMost people have some idea what Greeks and Romans coins looked like, but few know how complex Greek and Roman monetary systems eventually became. The contributors to this volume are numismatists, ancient historians, and economists intent on investigating how these systems worked and how they both did and did not resemble a modern monetary system. Why did people first start using coins? How did Greeks and Romans make payments, large or small? What does money mean in Greek tragedy? Was the Roman Empire an integrated economic system? This volume can serve as an introduction to such questions, but it also offers the specialist the results of original research.
The Cash Nexus
Author: Niall Ferguson
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2013-03-07
Total Pages: 544
ISBN-13: 0141976411
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Cash Nexus is the controversial history of money's central place in the world, from Niall Ferguson, bestselling author of Empire and Civilization Generations of historians have shied away from the truth behind the cliche: money makes the world go around. International bestseller Niall Ferguson answers the big questions about finance and its crucial place in bringing happiness and despair, warfare and welfare, boom and crash to nations buffeted by the onward march of history. Starting in 1700 and ending today, The Cash Nexus is a dazzling, powerful and controversial explanation of modern world history and the fundamental force that lurks behind it all. About the author: Niall Ferguson is one of Britain's most renowned historians. He is the author of Paper and Iron, The House of Rothschild, The Pity of War, Empire, Colossus, The War of the World, The Ascent of Money, High Financier, Civilization and The Great Degeneration. He has written and presented six highly successful television series for Channel Four: Empire, American Colossus, The War of the World, The Ascent of Money, Civilization and China: Triumph and Turmoil.
Pre-Modern European Economy
Author: Paolo Malanima
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 449
ISBN-13: 9004178228
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book provides an overall reconstruction of the European economy, in the global context, from the High Middle Ages until the beginning of Modern Growth in the 19th century.
Mountains of Debt
Author: Michael Veseth
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1990-11-29
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0195362454
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLike the United States today, Renaissance Florence and Victorian Britain were the richest, most dynamic economic systems of their times. Yet each succumbed to a fiscal crisis brought on by public debt and taxation and eventually fell into long-term economic decline. Now, public debt and taxation dominate the America policy agenda. Must the United States follow the same dismal pattern of fiscal crisis and economic decline? Mountains of Debt argues that it is not too late for the United States to change directions and suggests a comprehensive program for reform of American fiscal institutions that would reduce the deficit problem and at the same time reverse the long-term structural trends that are both the cause and the effect of the fiscal crisis today. Offering proposals for reducing the deficit, this new analysis could alter the current course of the United States economy.
Financial Structure and Stability
Author: Alexander Karmann
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 3642576745
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe basic question of this book is what we can learn from empirical as well as theoretical analysis of financial systems, differing cross-sectional and changing structually over time, with respect to the issue of stability of financial systems. Part I of the book deals with stability issues in a globalizing financial world and addresses topics of convergence, domestic policy, financial bubbles, crises and international coordination. Part II is on banking systems. Country specific adoption and restructuring of (universal but also separation) banking systems are key problems for the industrialized economies, while catching-up is of major concern for the economies in transition. Feeble regional economies and subsidized banking is at the heart of the vivid dispute on public sector banking being taken up in Part III. The last Part is devoted to resource-oriented approaches in quantifiying financial development and risk of sovereign default.
Fiscal Regimes and the Political Economy of Premodern States
Author: Andrew Monson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-04-23
Total Pages: 603
ISBN-13: 1316300153
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInspired by the new fiscal history, this book represents the first global survey of taxation in the premodern world. What emerges is a rich variety of institutions, including experiments with sophisticated instruments such as sovereign debt and fiduciary money, challenging the notion of a typical premodern stage of fiscal development. The studies also reveal patterns and correlations across widely dispersed societies that shed light on the basic factors driving the intensification, abatement, and innovation of fiscal regimes. Twenty scholars have contributed perspectives from a wide range of fields besides history, including anthropology, economics, political science and sociology. The volume's coverage extends beyond Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Near East to East Asia and the Americas, thereby transcending the Eurocentric approach of most scholarship on fiscal history.
