{"product_id":"the-rise-of-financial-capitalism-international-capital-markets-in-the-age-of-reason-paperback-9780521457385","title":"The Rise of Financial Capitalism; International Capital Markets in the Age of Reason (Paperback) 9780521457385","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Rise of Financial Capitalism\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eInternational Capital Markets in the Age of Reason\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBased on computer analysis of price quotes from the eighteenth-century financial press, this work reevaluates the evolution of financial markets.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLarry Neal (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521457385, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 26 November 1993\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e292 pages, 46 b\/w illus.  37 tables\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.44 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'In bringing capital market operations into new focus, Neal has brought new life to an old debate and has produced a book that deserves to be widely read and discussed.'  The Times Higher Education Supplement\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis work establishes the existence of a sophisticated and smoothly functioning system of financial markets in the mercantile states of northwestern Europe throughout the 1700s. Based on computer analysis of thousands of price quotes from the financial press of the eighteenth century, the results should force both historians and economists to re-evaluate their understanding of the evolution of financial markets and their importance for the economic developments of that era.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Historical background for the rise of financial capitalism: commercial revolution, rise of nation states, and capital markets\u003cbr\u003e 2. The development of an information network and the international capital markets of London and Amsterdam\u003cbr\u003e 3. The early capital markets of London and Amsterdam\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Banque Royale and the South Sea Company: how the bubbles began\u003cbr\u003e 4. Appendix: were the Mississippi and south sea bubbles rational? 5. The Bank of England and the South Sea Company: how the bubbles ended\u003cbr\u003e 6. The English and Dutch East India Companies: how the west was won\u003cbr\u003e 7. The integration of the English and Dutch capital markets in peace and war\u003cbr\u003e 8. The English and Dutch capital markets in panics\u003cbr\u003e 9. The capital markets during revolutions, war and peace\u003cbr\u003e 10. A tale of two revolutions: international capital flows 1792–1819\u003cbr\u003e 11. The London and Amsterdam stock markets, 1800–1825.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Economic history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Economic history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Economic%20history%20%5BKCZ%5D%22\"\u003eKCZ\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46002541003032,"sku":"9780521457385","price":21.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521457385i_8484aaaa-826f-4bf8-8ce7-92e08e3ae1b9.jpg?v=1691382350","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-rise-of-financial-capitalism-international-capital-markets-in-the-age-of-reason-paperback-9780521457385","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}