Spanish Money and Banking [electronic resource] : A History /
Tortella, Gabriel.author.
Ruiz, José Luis García.author.
This book incorporates advances in financial and monetary history and theory and shows the relevance of Spain's story to modern banking, monetary and development theory. It studies the early development of banking and monetary institutions and shows how financial and monetary mismanagement contributed to the decline of Spain in the early modern era.
Description based upon print version of record.
""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""List of Tables                     ""; ""List of Figures                      ""; ""List of Data Appendices                              ""; ""Preface and Acknowledgements                                   ""; ""1 Introduction                     ""; ""1.1 Distinctive traits                             ""; ""1.2 Banking and money in the medieval and early modern periods                                                                     ""
""2 Money and Banking in the Twilight of Empire                                                    """"2.1 Fiscal and monetary problems: the Vales Reales                                                         ""; ""2.2 The Bank of Saint Charles                                    ""; ""2.3 War and decline                          ""; ""2.4 War and stagnation                             ""; ""3 Banking in War and Peace                                 ""
""3.1 Some institutional groundwork: the Commerce Code, the Madrid Stock Exchange, and the Bank of Saint Ferdinand                                                                                                                       """"3.2 Monetary and fiscal effects of the fall of the empire                                                                ""; ""3.3 How to pay for the war                                 ""; ""3.4 The peace dividend: the Banks of Isabel II and Barcelona                                                                   ""
""3.5 The first capitalist crisis                                      """"3.6 Monetary reform                          ""; ""4 Banks and Railways: From Boom to Bust                                              ""; ""4.1 Progressive economic policies                                        ""; ""4.2 The effect of the banking laws                                         ""; ""4.3 Free banking?                        ""; ""4.4 Lost illusions                         ""; ""4.5 The onset of a long depression                                         ""
""5 The Peseta and the Bank of Spain                                         """"5.1 Revolutionary policies                                 ""; ""5.2 A brief respite                          ""; ""5.3 Free banking no more                               ""; ""5.4 The bank and the peseta                                  ""; ""5.5 Picking up the pieces of the banking system                                                      ""; ""5.6 Monetary doubts and the silver standard                                                  ""; ""6 A Renewed Banking System                                 ""
""6.1 Stabilization and regeneration                                         ""
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book incorporates advances in financial and monetary history and theory and shows the relevance of Spain's story to modern banking, monetary and development theory. It studies the early development of banking and monetary institutions and shows how financial and monetary mismanagement contributed to the decline of Spain in the early modern era.
Banks and banking.
Economic history.
Macroeconomics.
Business enterprises-Finance.
Banking.
Economic History.
Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics.
Business Finance.