This work establishes the existence of a sophisticated and smoothly functioning system of financial markets in the mercantile states of northwestern Europe throughout the 1700s. Based on computer analysis of thousands of price quotes from the financial press of the eighteenth century, the results should force both historians and economists to re-evaluate their understanding of the evolution of financial markets and their importance for the economic developments of that era.
| ISBN: | 9780521382052 |
| Publication date: | 25th January 1991 |
| Author: | Larry Neal |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 278 pages |
| Series: | Studies in Monetary and Financial History |
| Genres: |
Economic history |
This work establishes the existence of a sophisticated and smoothly functioning system of financial markets in the mercantile states of northwestern Europe throughout the 1700s. Based on computer analysis of thousands of price quotes from the financial press of the eighteenth century, the results should force both historians and economists to re-evaluate their understanding of the evolution of financial markets and their importance for the economic developments of that era.
The Rise of Financial Capitalism features in the following genres: Economic history
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The Rise of Financial Capitalism was written by Larry Neal and published by Cambridge University Press
The Rise of Financial Capitalism has 278 pages
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