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The Global Financial System 1750-2000
Larry Allen
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Description for The Global Financial System 1750-2000
Hardcover. Traces the evolution of the highly integrated global financial system from 1750 to the present. This book examines the corporate form of business organization in the eighteenth century that saw an explosion of growth in the nineteenth, which facilitated the international movement of capital. Series: Globalities. Num Pages: 256 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; KCB; KCLF; KCZ; KFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 141 x 29. Weight in Grams: 338.
This book traces the evolution of the highly integrated global financial system from 1750 to the present. It examines the corporate form of business organization in the eighteenth century that saw an explosion of growth in the nineteenth, which facilitated the international movement of capital. The author also deals with the parallel growth of financial markets and explains how the need to finance public debts paved the way for stock markets as well as outlining the role of private merchant bankers, who originated as international bankers with family-run offices across Europe. He charts the development of banks into public corporations ... Read more
This book traces the evolution of the highly integrated global financial system from 1750 to the present. It examines the corporate form of business organization in the eighteenth century that saw an explosion of growth in the nineteenth, which facilitated the international movement of capital. The author also deals with the parallel growth of financial markets and explains how the need to finance public debts paved the way for stock markets as well as outlining the role of private merchant bankers, who originated as international bankers with family-run offices across Europe. He charts the development of banks into public corporations ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
Globalities
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781861891099
SKU
V9781861891099
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99-50
About Larry Allen
Larry Allen is Professor of Economics at Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas. He is the author of the ABC-CLIO World History Companion to Capitalism (1998), Encyclopedia of Money, and The Global Economic System since 1945 (Reaktion, 2002).
Reviews for The Global Financial System 1750-2000
'This is an enjoyable, easy-to-read book and Allen effortlessly weaves a pattern from the multiple strands that have made the global economy an excellent general economic history and makes fascinating reading.' - The Irish Times