Priceless markets
Subtitle: the political economy of credit in Paris, 1660-1870
By: Philip T. Hoffman, Gilles Postel-Vinay, and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal.
Contributors: Postel-Vinay, Gilles.; Rosenthal, Jean-Laurent.
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
Subjects: Commercial credit -- France -- Paris -- History; Commercial loans -- France -- Paris -- History; France -- Economic conditions; Paris (France) -- Economic conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-339) and index.
Table of contents: title: The institutions of credit markets; title: From notarial archives to credit; title: Stagnation and decline, 1660-1715; title: The crisis of public finance and the law affair, 1712-26; title: An explosion of private borrowing, 1726-89; title: Overcoming asymmetric information in financial markets; title: Notaries, banking, and the expansion of credit in old-regime Paris; title: Micro-economics and macro-politics: credit and inflation during the French Revolution; title: The long-term financial consequences of the Revolution; title: Institutions and information after the Revolution; title: The rise of the crédit foncier.