Title: Money and finance in the age of merchant capitalism
First published: 1998
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.
Subjects: History, Money, Economic conditions, Finance, Finance, europe, Money, europe, Europe, economic conditions, Middle ages, history, Finance, history
Places: Europe