Global Connections and Monetary History, 1470-1800
Contributors: Dennis O. Flynn (Editor); Arturo Giraldez (Editor); Richard Von Glahn (Editor)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: October 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780754632139
Subjects: Economic History; International trade; World history: c 1500 to c 1750; World history: c 1750 to c 1900; World history: c 500 to C 1500; History: World; Business / Economics / Finance; Money & Monetary Policy; Money; International finance; General; History; Monetary policy
First sentence: For almost four centuries, the influx of Spanish-American silver had been viewed as the primary culprit responsible for the inflation of the Price Revolution era in early-modern Europe, a sustained rise in almost all prices, lasting well more than a century (in England, a seven-fold increase by the later 1640s; see Table 1.1).