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| Acknowledgements | ||
| 1 | Introduction | 1 |
| 2 | The impact of Italian banking in the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, 1300-1500 | 17 |
| 3 | The great German banking houses and international merchants, sixteenth to nineteenth century | 35 |
| 4 | Public banks, trade and industry in southern Italy, seventeenth to eighteenth century | 50 |
| 5 | Financial circuits in Spain: merchants and bankers, 1700-1914 | 69 |
| 6 | Banking and the evolution of the British economy, 1694-1878 | 89 |
| 7 | Banks, economic development and capitalism in France | 113 |
| 8 | The influence of banking on the rise and expansion of industrial capitalism in Germany | 131 |
| 9 | Banks and the rise of capitalism in Switzerland, fifteenth to twentieth century | 157 |
| 10 | The influence of banking on the rise of capitalism in north-west Europe, fourteenth to nineteenth century | 173 |
| 11 | The influence of banking on the development of capitalism in the Scandinavian countries | 191 |
| 12 | Banking and industry in central Europe, nineteenth to twentieth century | 214 |
| 13 | Banking and economic development in Spain | 229 |
| 14 | The role of banking in Italy's industrialization, nineteenth to twentieth century | 245 |
| 15 | The role of European banks in the Ottoman Empire in the second half of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries | 263 |
| 16 | The role of banks in establishing a community of firms in Russia | 277 |
| 17 | Banking in North America, 1700-1900 | 297 |
| 18 | Banking as class action: social and national struggles in the history of Canadian banking | 315 |
| 19 | Nation building and the origins of banking in Latin America, 1850-1930 | 339 |
| 20 | Banking, trade and the rise of capitalism in Argentina, 1850-1930 | 359 |
| 21 | International banking in China, 1890-1913 | 378 |
| 22 | The role of banking in Japan, 1882-1973 | 396 |
| Index | 414 |
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Andy Kurniawan
reviewed Banking, Trade and Industry: Europe, America and Asia from the Thirteenth to the Twentieth Century on September 09, 2014
Banking, Trade and Industry: Europe, America and Asia from the Thirteenth to the Twentieth Century
This little book, published in 1871, describes the functioning of the first great capital market at the time when money first began to flow quickly and easily across distances and borders to wherever it would be most profitable to those who controlled it. (I suspect the telegraph played a role in this transformation.) Bagehot confined himself to describing the workings of the actual money market, intentionally keeping clear of economic theory. The fact he named the book after the specific street where the activities took place is indicative. Although conditions have changed greatly since he wrote, the book presents a good introduction to the mechanisms of capital.
The latter part of the book points out weaknesses in the then current workings of the money market that resulted from London having become an international centre for capital and it proposes methods of safe guarding against a panic. I think it demonstrates his astuteness that he was arguing this in 1871 two years before "The Panic of 1873" that triggered the "Long Depression", the first global depression, lasting twenty years.
He was one of those uncommon writers who are able to express complexity clearly. I wish I could find somebody writing about money today with his skill as a writer, his knowledge (before becoming a journalist he had worked as a banker) and his scrupulous avoidance of economic dogma.
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