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The History of Bankruptcy : Economic, Social and Cultural Implications in Early Modern Europe.
This volume takes up bankruptcy in early modern Europe, when its frequency made it not only an economic problem but a personal tragedy and a social evil. Using legal, business and personal records, the essays in this volume examine the impact of failure on business organizations and practices, capit...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2013.
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| Colección: | Routledge explorations in economic history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; The History of Bankruptcy; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of contributors; 1 Introduction: a history of bankruptcy and bankruptcy inhistory; PART ISocial contexts; 2 Merchants' bankruptcies, economic development and socialrelations in German cities during the long 16th century; 3 Debt and default in 18th-century Champagne; 4 Credit, trust and risk: shopkeepers' bankruptcies in18th-century Paris; 5 Financial networks, migration and the transformation of themerchant elite in 18th-century Stockholm; PART IIBusiness practices.
- 6 Bankruptcy in the Kingdom of Naples: the case of publicbanks (17th to 18th centuries)7 Learning from others' failures: the rise of the Monte di pietàin early modern Bologna; 8 Bankruptcy and the bank: the case of the "kaiserlich königliche Wiener octroyierte Commercial-, Leih- und Wechselbank" of Vienna in the 18th century; 9 Boom and crisis in financing the British transatlantic trade:a case study of the bankruptcy of John Leigh & Company in1811; PART IIIInstitutional developments; 10 The insolvent Zuchthaus as cameralist dystopia; 11 Bankruptcy in early modern German territories.
- 12 Bankruptcy, insolvency and debt collection amongmerchants in Antwerp (c.1490 to c.1540)13 The reception of the actio Pauliana in Scots law; 14 Bankruptcy, fresh start and debt renegotiation in Englandand France (17th to 18th century); Bibliography; Index.