Prometheus shackled : Goldsmith Banks and England's financial revolution after 1700
Temin, PeterAuthor
Voth, Hans-Joachim.Contributor
Voth, Hans-JoachimContributor
New York : Oxford University Press,
2013.
Using new archival data from goldsmith banks, Temin and Voth document how government regulation and wartime financing stifled the growth of private credit markets during the Industrial Revolution. They show how, after a turbulent start, banks adapted and found a way to grow, but how the economy at large lost out.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Using new archival data from goldsmith banks, Temin and Voth document how government regulation and wartime financing stifled the growth of private credit markets during the Industrial Revolution. They show how, after a turbulent start, banks adapted and found a way to grow, but how the economy at large lost out.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Earning and spending in eighteenth-century London -- The financial revolution -- Goldsmith Banks -- Borrowers, investors and usury laws -- The south sea bubble -- The triumph of boring banking -- Finance and slow growth during the industrial revolution -- Conclusions.
Banks and banking
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Finance
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