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The origins of national financial systems : Alexander Gerschenkron reconsidered /

This book poses a systematic challenge to Gerschenkron's 1950s thesis on universal banks. With contributions from leading scholars including Ranald Michie and Jaime Reis, it provides solid and intriguing arguments throughout.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Forsyth, Douglas J. (Douglas James), 1955-, Verdier, Daniel, 1954-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.
Series:Routledge explorations in economic history ; 23.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Explaining cross-national variations in universal banking in nineteenth-century Europe, North America and Australasia; Banks and securities markets 1870 1914; Competing in tandem: securities markets and commercial banking patterns in Europe during the nineteenth century; On the development of universal banking in Germany; The early development of universal banking in Italy in an adverse institutional context, 1850 1914.
  • The origins of universal banks in France during the nineteenth centuryBanking systems as ~ideal types~ and as political economy: the Swedish case, 1820 1914; The development of a hybrid structure in Norway: banks and economic change in the European periphery, 1870 1913; Universal banking in Russia; Bank structures, Gerschenkron and Portugal (pre-1914); Works cited; Index.