The origins of national financial systems : Alexander Gerschenkron reconsidered /

The origins of national financial systems : Alexander Gerschenkron reconsidered / edited by Douglas J. Forsyth and Daniel Verdier. - London ; New York : Routledge, 2003. - 1 online resource (xiii, 237 pages) : illustrations. - Routledge explorations in economic history ; 23 . - Routledge explorations in economic history ; 23. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-229) and index.

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.

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.

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Gerschenkron, Alexander.
Gerschenkron, Alexander.


Banks and banking--History.
Investment banking--History.
Universal banks--History.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Banks & Banking.
Banks and banking.
Investment banking.
Universal banks.
Bankwezen.


Electronic books.
History.

HG1601 / .O75 2003

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