Finance, Intermediaries, and Economic Development

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Hardcover | 5 August 2003

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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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List of contributors
Preface
Introduction
Financial Intermediaries in Europe
Markets and institutions in the rise of London as a financial center in the seventeenth century
The Paris bourse, 1724âÇô1814: experiments in microstructure
No exit: notarial bankruptcies and the evolution of financial intermediation in nineteenth century
Financial Intermediaries in the Americas
The mortgage market in Upper Canada: window on a pioneer economy
Integration of US capital markets: southern stock markets and the case of New Orleans, 1871âÇô1913
The transition from building and loan to savings and loan, 1890âÇô1940
Other Forms of Intermediation
Intermediaries in the US market for Technology, 1870âÇô1920
Beyond Chinatown: overseas Chinese intermediaries on the multiethnic North-American Pacific coast in the age of financial capital
Finance and capital accumulation in a planned economy: the agricultural surplus hypothesis and Soviet economic development, 1928âÇô1939
Was adherence to the gold standard a 'good housekeeping seal of approval' during the interwar period?
Afterword
Index
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