Money and finance in the age of merchant capitalism
By: John Day.
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Oxford; Malden, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 165
Subjects: Finance -- Europe -- History.; Money -- Europe -- History.; Europe -- Economic conditions.
Description: This book examines the monetary and financial structures of pre-industrial capitalism from the thirteenth to the eighteenth centuries. The coverage ranges widely across the whole of Europe with particular attention to the role of the money supply in long term economic movements. The author also discusses the question of business cycles and financial crises as dealt with by historians of the French Annales school, notably by Marc Bloch and Fernand Braudel.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.