Capitals of Capital: The Rise and Fall of International Financial Centres 1780-2009Cambridge University Press, 2010 M03 18 - 393 páginas This is the first history of international financial centres and of the major stake that they now represent in the global economy. Youssef Cassis, one of the world's leading financial historians, provides a fascinating comparative history of the most important centres that constitute the capitals of capital - New York, London, Frankfurt, Paris, Zurich, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Singapore. The book explores the dynamics of the rise and decline of these great centres from the beginning of the industrial age up to the present, setting them throughout in their economic, political, social, and cultural context and drawing on concepts from financial economics in its analysis of events. This paperback edition has been fully updated to take account of the challenges posed by the financial collapse of 2007-8 and offers the longer term framework necessary to understand the ongoing economic crisis facing capitals of capital today. |
Contenido
The age of private bankers 17801840 | 7 |
The concentration of capital 18401875 | 41 |
A globalised world 18751914 | 74 |
Wars and depression 19141945 | 143 |
Growth and regulation 19451980 | 200 |
Globalisation innovation and crisis 19802009 | 242 |
Conclusion | 286 |
Glossary | 295 |
Notes | 304 |
| 356 | |
| 376 | |
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Capitals of Capital: The Rise and Fall of International Financial Centres ... Youssef Cassis Vista previa limitada - 2010 |
Términos y frases comunes
abroad activities American banks Amsterdam assets Bank of England bankers banking houses Banque de France Baring Brothers Berlin big banks bonds Britain British brokers Brussels Cambridge capital market Cassis central bank City of London City’s commercial banks companies competition countries country’s Crédit Lyonnais crisis currency d'escompte deposit banks Deutsche Bank discount economic especially Eurobond Eurodollar Euromarkets Europe exports financière firms foreign banks foreign issues foreign loans Frankfurt French funds Geneva German banks globalisation gold standard haute banque industrial international capital international financial centres investment banks issue syndicates J. P. Morgan joint-stock largest London Stock Exchange mainly merchant banks million monetary Morgan National Bank nineteenth century operations Paris Parisian political private banks railway reserves role Rothschilds sector securities shares Société Générale specialised Swiss Bank Corporation Swiss banks Switzerland took transactions twentieth century United York Stock Exchange Zurich