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The origins of national financial systems : Alexander Gerschenkron reconsidered / edited by Douglas J. Forsyth and Daniel Verdier.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Routledge explorations in economic history ; 23.Publication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 237 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0203222113
  • 9780203222119
  • 9780415301688
  • 0415301688
  • 9786610180646
  • 6610180644
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Origins of national financial systems.DDC classification:
  • 332.1 21
LOC classification:
  • HG1601 .O75 2003
Other classification:
  • 83.50
Online resources:
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.
Summary: 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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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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