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Title Finance, intermediaries, and economic development / edited by Stanley L. Engerman, Philip T. Hoffman, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, and Kenneth L. Sokoloff
Published Cambrige, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 350 pages) : illustrations
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
Summary This volume contains papers first presented at a conference, "In Data Veritas: Institutions and Growth in Economic History," held in honor of Lance Davis at the California Institute of Technology, November 6-8, 1998. There are 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
Analysis Institutions
Finance
Economic history
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Financial institutions -- Congresses
Economic development -- Congresses
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Banks & Banking.
Economic development
Financial institutions
Genre/Form Electronic books
Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Davis, Lance E. (Lance Edwin), honouree.
Engerman, Stanley L., editor.
Hoffman, Philip T., 1947- editor.
Rosenthal, Jean-Laurent, editor
Sokoloff, Kenneth Lee, editor
LC no. 2002031366
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