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Banking on the state : the financial foundations of Lebanon / Hicham Safieddine.
LIBRA HG3259.A7 S24 2019
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Safieddine, Hicham, author.
- Series:
- Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Maṣrif Lubnān.
- Finance.
- History.
- Monetary policy.
- Banks and banking, Central.
- Colonial influence.
- Lebanon--Colonial influence.
- Lebanon.
- Maṣrif Lubnān--History.
- Banks and banking, Central--Lebanon--History.
- Monetary policy--Lebanon--History.
- Finance--Lebanon--History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 253 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2019]
- Contents:
- Introduction: illusions of financial independence
- Colonial finance: the long monetary mandate
- Central bank reform: ideas and institutions
- Barons of banking: the untouchables
- Banque du Liban: a façade of economic sovereignty
- Suits and shadows: the Intra affair
- Financial regime change : the last refuge of Laissez-faire
- Conclusion: sovereign debt, sovereign banks.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Herbert Arnold Speiser Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Safieddine, Hicham, author. Banking on the state
- ISBN:
- 9781503605497
- 1503605493
- 9781503609679
- 1503609677
- OCLC:
- 1084641143
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