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Finance, Intermediaries, and Economic Development - Softcover

 
9780521147415: Finance, Intermediaries, and Economic Development
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0521147417 ISBN 13: 9780521147415
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

This volume includes ten essays concerned with financial and other forms of economic intermediation in Europe, Canada, and the United States, dating from the seventeenth century through the twentieth. The essays relate the development of institutions to economic change and describe their evolution over time. Each also discusses several different forms of intermediation and deals with significant economic and historical issues.

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Book Description

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 discusses several different forms of intermediation and deals with significant economic and historical issues.

Review

"This is an unusually strong and coherent collection of essays...an excellent piece of research (that) will find a welcome place on the shelves of any library, as well as any economic historian who admires the work of Lance Davis." Timothy W. Guinnane, Yale University, EH.net

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2010
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521147417
ISBN 13 
9780521147415
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
362
Editor
Engerman Stanley L., Hoffman Philip T., Rosenthal Jean-Laurent, Sokoloff Kenneth L.