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Capitals of capital : a history of international financial centres, 1780-2005 / Youssef Cassis ; translated by Jacqueline Collier.
Lippincott Library HG3881 .C37 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cassis, Youssef.
- Standardized Title:
- Les capitales du capital :histoire des places financières internationales, 1780-2005. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Financial institutions, International--History.
- Financial institutions, International.
- International finance--History.
- International finance.
- History.
- Banks and banking--History.
- Banks and banking.
- Finance--History.
- Finance.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 385 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the French.
- Summary:
- The first comparative history of the major international financial centres from New York to Tokyo.
- Contents:
- 1 The age of private bankers, 1780-1840 7
- The grandeur and decline of Amsterdam 9
- The rise of the City of London 15
- The revival of Paris 24
- The lesser centres 31
- Interactions and networks of relationships 37
- 2 The concentration of capital, 1840-1875 41
- The banking revolution 42
- The railway adventure 54
- Rivalry between London and Paris 60
- The rise and fall of the lesser centres 68
- 3 A globalised world, 1875-1914 74
- The globalisation of the world economy 75
- World financial capital: the City of London 83
- A brilliant second: Paris 101
- The rise of Berlin 108
- The rising star: New York 114
- Niches and specialisations 124
- Competition and cooperation 131
- The Belle Epoque of the bankers 135
- 4 Wars and depression, 1914-1945 143
- The Great War 144
- The roaring twenties 152
- The years of crisis 180
- The Second World War 193
- 5 Growth and regulation, 1945-1980 200
- The difficult return to convertibility 204
- The birth and development of the Euromarkets 219
- The dawn of globalisation 235
- 6 Globalisation and financial innovations, 1980-2005 242
- The new world economy 242
- The leading financial centres at the Dawn of the twenty-first Century 261.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0521845351
- 9780521845359
- OCLC:
- 80013897
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