The rise and fall of the city of money : a financial history of Edinburgh / Ray Perman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Perman, Ray, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Finance--Scotland--Edinburgh--History.

Finance.

Edinburgh (Scotland)--Economic conditions.

Edinburgh (Scotland).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (393 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Birlinn, 2019.

Summary:

This is the colourful story of how Edinburgh rose to be one of the top 10 financial centres in Europe - and how the crisis of 2008 decimated its banking, insurance and investment institutions. Written by award-winning journalist Ray Perman who has reported on the Edinburgh financial industry for 40 years.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright

Contents

Preface

Part 1: The ascent of paper money

1. Famine and finance

2. Britain’s first commercial bank

3. The first bank war

4. The Equivalent and the beginning of paper money

5. Royal Bank and the second bank war

6. Hard drinking ministers found the pensions industry

7. Jacobites defeated by bankers

8. Drummond’s vision for a city on a hill

9. Glasgow rivalry and the unfortunate Mr Trotter

10. Collapse of the Ayr bank

11. Dundas versus Dundas

12. Riot and revolution

13. Wartime austerity

Part 2: The evolution of the Scottish system

14. Sycophants of existing power

15. Insurance and the first fire brigade

16. Wotherspoon and the Widows

17. The ruin of Walter Scott (and how he got out of it)

18. The bankruptcy of Edinburgh

19. English money for Scottish railways

20. The failure of the Western Bank

21. Bankers in the dock

Part 3: Modernisation and internationalisation

22. Financing American railroads Generated by AI.

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ISBN:

9781788852296

178885229X

OCLC:

1340958552