Money and Finance in the Age of Merchant Capitalism 1200-1800 - Softcover

Day, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0631212256 ISBN 13: 9780631212256

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 1999

Synopsis

This book provides a descriptive and thematic account of money and finance in medieval and early modern Europe.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

This book examines the monetary and financial structures of pre-industrial capitalism from the thirteenth to the eighteenth centuries. The coverage ranges widely across the whole of Europe with particular attention to the role of the money supply in long term economic movements. The author also discusses the question of business cycles and financial crises as dealt with by historians of the French Annales school, notably by Marc Bloch and Fernand Braudel.

Themes addressed include the diverse economies operating in Europe during this time contrasting, for example, the advanced exchange economy of Renaissance Venice with the economic dependency of Sardinia. The perennial 'problem of the standard', a key to our understanding of monetary mechanisms in any age, is treated on a country by country basis covering the entire five centuries of merchant capitalism.

About the Author:

John Day is research professor emeritus at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris. He previously lectured at the universities of Paris VII and Tel-Aviv and has taught in the US and Italy. His published works include The Medieval Market Economy (1987).

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0631212256
• ISBN 13: 9780631212256
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176