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Dark Matter Credit : The Development of Peer-to-Peer Lending and Banking in France /

How a vast network of shadow credit financed European growth long before the advent of bankingPrevailing wisdom dictates that, without banks, countries would be mired in poverty. Yet somehow much of Europe managed to grow rich long before the diffusion of banks. Dark Matter Credit draws on centuries...

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Auteurs principaux: Hoffman, Philip T., 1947- (Auteur), Rosenthal, Jean-Laurent (Auteur), Postel-Vinay, Gilles (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2019]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. 1740 and the Rules of the Game
  • Chapter 2. Spatial Variety versus Centralization: Change in Eighteenth- Century Credit Markets
  • Chapter 3. The Revolution: Collapse, Reform, and Modeling the Space of Debt
  • Chapter 4. Networks of Knowledge
  • Chapter 5. The Brief but Significant Life of an Institutional Innovation
  • Chapter 6. The Diffusion of Banks: Peer- to- Peer Credit Markets as Substitutes for Banks
  • Chapter 7. Banks and Notaries
  • Chapter 8. Prices Return
  • Chapter 9. Conclusion
  • Appendices
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index