Finance, intermediaries, and economic development / edited by Stanley L. Engerman [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Engerman, Stanley L., editor.

Davis, Lance E. (Lance Edwin), editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Financial institutions--Congresses.

Financial institutions.

Economic development--Congresses.

Economic development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 350 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Finance, Intermediaries, & Economic Development

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume includes ten essays dealing with financial and other forms of economic intermediation in Europe, Canada, and the United States since the seventeenth century. Each relates the development of institutions to economic change and describes their evolution over time, as well as discussing several different forms of intermediation, and deals with significant economic and historical issues.

Contents:

I. FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES IN EUROPE

Markets and institutions in the rise of London as a financial center in the seventeenth century / Larry Neal, Stephen Quinn

Paris Bourse, 1724-1814: experiments in microstructure / Eugene N. White

No exit: notarial bankruptcies and the evolution of financial intermediation in nineteenth century paris / Philip T. Hoffman, Gilles Postel-Vinay, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal

II. FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES IN THE AMERICAS

Mortgage market in Upper Canada: window on a pioneer economy / Angela Redish

Integration of U.S. capital markets: southern stock markets and the case of New Orleans, 1871-1913 / John B. Legler, Richard Sylla

Transition from building and loan to savings and loan, 1890-1940 / Kenneth A. Snowden

III. OTHER FORMS OF INTERMEDIATION

Intermediaries in the U.S. market for technology, 1870-1920 / Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Kenneth L. Sokoloff

Beyond Chinatown: overseas Chinese intermediaries on the multiethnic North-American Pacific coast in the age of financial capital / Dianne Newell

Finance and capital accumulation in a planned economy: the agricultural surplus hypothesis and soviet economic development, 1928-1939 / Robert C. Allen

Was adherence to the gold standard a "good housekeeping seal of approval" during the interwar period? / Michael Bordo, Michael Edelstein, Hugh Rockoff.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-13616-4

1-280-16254-6

0-511-12115-6

0-511-06172-2

0-511-20409-4

0-511-30693-8

0-511-51089-6

0-511-07018-7

OCLC:

252485333