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Prometheus shackled : Goldsmith Banks and England's financial revolution after 1700
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Temin, Peter, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Banks and banking--Great Britain--History.
- Banks and banking.
- Finance--Great Britain--History.
- Finance.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : ill.
- Other Title:
- Prometheus shackled
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Using new archival data from goldsmith banks, Temin and Voth document how government regulation and wartime financing stifled the growth of private credit markets during the Industrial Revolution. They show how, after a turbulent start, banks adapted and found a way to grow, but how the economy at large lost out.
- Contents:
- Earning and spending in eighteenth-century London
- The financial revolution
- Goldsmith Banks
- Borrowers, investors and usury laws
- The south sea bubble
- The triumph of boring banking
- Finance and slow growth during the industrial revolution
- Conclusions.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on Dec. 14, 2012).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199980789 (ebook) :
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