Hakutulokset: Sarja Financial History
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Monetary Statecraft in Brazil
Brazil has one of the world’s fastest growing economies and a fascinating history underpinning its evolution. This book presents an analysis of the state’s role in monetary policy, …
Histories of Tax Evasion, Avoidance and Resistance
Tax evasion, tax avoidance and tax resistance are widespread phenomena in political, economic, social and fiscal history from antiquity through medieval, early modern and modern …
Reforming the World Monetary System
Focusing on Fritz Machlup, Connell presents the story of the Bellagio Group and its contribution to modern finance. Initiated by Machlup the Bellagio Group was made up of …
Guilty Money
This is an engaging study of the place occupied by the City of London within British cultural life during the Victorian and Edwardian periods. Michie uses both literary and popular …
Monetary Plurality in Local, Regional and Global Economies
The idea that each country should have one currency is so deeply rooted in people’s minds that the possibility of multiple and concurrent currencies seems unthinkable. Monetary …
Gambling on the American Dream
Provides a historical perspective for understanding the exponential growth of casinos in the United States since 1990, by telling the story of Atlantic City, New Jersey since the …
Financial Markets and the Banking Sector
Based on both theoretical and empirical approaches, the essays in this volume emphasise the role of ethics in a globalized economy.
Regulation of the London Stock Exchange
In 1914, the notion of statutory regulation of trading in shares was anathema to both the Government and the London Stock Exchange. By 1945, a statutory scheme of regulation had …
Bonded Labour and Debt in the Indian Ocean World
This volume of essays contains case studies of debt bondage covering the impact of an expanding globalized economy, increased commercialization, colonial and post-colonial …
Convergence and Divergence of National Financial Systems
This collection of essays aims to form a focused, original and constructive approach to examining the question of convergence and divergence in Europe.
European Investment in Greece in the Nineteenth Century
Banking historiography often does not sufficiently take into account bankers’ deliberations of their decision making, but rather limits investigation to considerations of profit …
Virginia and the Panic of 1819
Argues that the Panic of 1819 was America's first experience with a modern boom-bust cycle, and most importantly, much more than a banking panic resulting from the mismanagement of …