Transferring wealth and power from the old to the new world
Subtitle: monetary and fiscal institutions in the 17th through the 19th century
By: edited by Michael D. Bordo, Roberto Cortés-Conde
Contributors: Bordo, Michael D; Cortés Conde, Roberto
Series: Studies in macroeconomic history
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 482
Subjects: Economic history; Fiscal policy -- Europe -- History; Monetary policy -- Europe -- History; International economic relations -- History; Europe -- Economic conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: The origins and development of stable fiscal and monetary institutions in England / Forrest Capie; title: France and the failure to modernize macroeconomic institutions / Eugene N. White; title: The Netherlands in the New World: the legacy of European fiscal, monetary, and trading institutions for New World development from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries / Jan de Vries; title: Fiscal and monetary institutions in Spain (1600-1900) / Gabriel Tortella and Francisco Comín; title: War, taxes, and gold: the inheritance of the Real / Jorge Braga de Macedo, Álvaro Ferreira da Silva, and Rita Martins de Sousa; title: The United States: financial innovation and adaptation / Richard Sylla; title: The legacy of French and English fiscal and monetary institutions for Canada / Michael D. Bordo and Angela Redish; title: Mexico: from colonial fiscal regime to liberal financial order, 1750-1912 / Carlos Marichal and Marcello Carmagnani; title: Property rights and the fiscal and financial systems in Brazil: colonial heritage and the imperial period / Marcelo de Paiva Abreu and Luis A. Corrêa do Lago; title: Argentina: from colony to nation: fiscal and monetary experience of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Roberto Cortés-Conde and George T. McCandless; title: continuities and discontinuities in the fiscal and monetary institutions of New Granada, 1783-1850 / Jaime U. Jaramillo, Adolfo R. Maisel, and Miguel M. Urrutia; title: The state in economic history / Herschel I. Grossman; title: Reflections on the collection / Albert Fishlow