عنوان

The global financial system, 1750-2000 /

(Number (ISBN

1861891091

(Number (ISBN

9781861891099

Number

b753895

Title Proper

The global financial system, 1750-2000 /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Larry Allen.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

London :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Reaktion Books,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2001.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

256 pages ;

Dimensions

23 cm

Series Title

Globalities

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-248) and index.

Text of Note

1. The Coming of the Corporation -- 2. The Making of Financial Markets -- 3. Gold and Silver: Aristocrats of Monetary Standards -- 4. The Triumph of Paper Money -- 5. The Passage from Free Banking to Central Banking -- 6. The Birth of World Currencies -- 7. The Road to Flexible Exchange Rates -- 8. The Evolution of International Banking -- 9. The Paths of Foreign Investment -- 10. The Struggle for Free Trade -- 11. The Vicissitudes of Capitalism -- 12. The Age of Financial Integration Begins -- 13. In the Shadow of the Global Financial System.

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Text of Note

"This book traces the evolution of today's highly integrated global financial system from its origins around 1750. The 1700s saw the cautious growth of the corporate form of business organization that exploded in the nineteenth century, thus facilitating the international movement of capital. In charting these changes, Larry Allen describes the parallel growth of the financial markets and explains how the need to finance public debts paved the way for stock markets; he also outlines the role of private merchant bankers such as the Rothchilds, from their origins as international bankers with family-run offices across Europe. Allen charts the transformation of banks into public corporations and follows the evolution of modern paper money, putting the emergence of institutions such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank - target of anit-capitalist protest today - into their historical contexts. As well as tracing the development of foreign-exchange markets and the history of trading blocs, the book also examines how economic powers such as Britain and France used access to capital to wield power in less-developed parts of the world, Finally, Allen surveys the history of financial crises to show how economic shocks reverberate from one country to another today through a network constructed over more than two centuries."--Jacket.

Title

Global financial system, 1750-2000.

Financial institutions.

International finance.

Financial institutions.

Financiële instellingen.

Freihandel.

Freihandel.

International finance.

Internationale financiën.

Internationaler Kapitalmarkt.

Internationaler Kapitalmarkt.

Internationaler Kreditmarkt.

Internationaler Kreditmarkt.

Internationales Währungssystem.

Internationales Währungssystem.

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Class number

Class number

System Code

System Code

Allen, Larry,1949-

Date of Transaction

20201204132505.0

Electronic name

[Book]

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