Transferring Wealth and Power from the Old to the New World
Subtitle: Monetary and Fiscal Institutions in the 17th through the 19th Centuries (Studies in Macroeconomic History)
Contributors: Michael D. Bordo (Editor); Roberto Cortés-Conde (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: October 8, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 494
ISBN-13: 9780521773058
Subjects: Banking; Economic History; c 1600 to c 1700; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; Business/Economics; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Monetary policy; ASIA; Europe; The Americas; Economic Conditions; Money & Monetary Policy; Business & Economics / Economic History; Econdomic conditions; Fiscal policy; History
First sentence: The chapters in this collection examine the factors that allowed efficient fiscal and monetary institutions to develop in some countries at certain moments in time, while in others such development turned out to be unsuccessful.