Author: David S. LandesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Bankers and Pashas
Author: David S. LandesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Bankers and pashas
Author: David S. LandesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Banks and banking, Foreign
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Bankers and Empire
Author: Peter James HudsonPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022645911X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Introduction : Dark finance -- Colonialism's methods -- Rogue bankers -- The bankers' occupation -- Empire's regulation -- American expansion -- Imperial government -- Odious debt -- Conclusion : Racial capitalism's crisis
Dynasties
Author: David S. LandesPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101650907
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 499
Book Description
From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Wealth and Poverty of Nations, a fascinating look at the crossroads of kin and coin David S. Landes has earned a reputation as a brilliant writer and iconoclast among economic historians. In his latest acclaimed work, he takes a revealing look at the quality that distinguishes a third of today's Fortune 500 companies: family ownership. From the banking fortunes of Rothschild and Morgan to the automobile empires of Ford and Toyota, Landes explores thirteen different dynasties, revealing what lay behind their successes-and how extravagance, bad behavior, and poor enterprise brought some of them to their knees. A colorful history that is full of surprising conclusions, Dynasties is an engrossing mix of ambition, eccentricity, and wealth.
Wealth And Poverty Of Nations
Author: David S. LandesPublisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0349141444
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 743
Book Description
The history of nations is a history of haves and have-nots, and as we approach the millennium, the gap between rich and poor countries is widening. In this engrossing and important new work, eminent historian David Landes explores the complex, fascinating and often startling causes of the wealth and poverty of nations. The answers are found not only in the large forces at work in economies: geography, religion, the broad swings of politics, but also in the small surprising details. In Europe, the invention of spectacles doubled the working life of skilled craftsmen, and played a prominent role in the creation of articulated machines, and in China, the failure to adopt the clock fundamentally hindered economic development. The relief of poverty is vital to the survival of us all. As David Landes brilliantly shows, the key to future success lies in understanding the lessons the past has to teach us - lessons uniquely imparted in this groundbreaking and vital book which exemplifies narrative history at its best.
City Bankers, 1890-1914
Author: Youssef CassisPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521441889
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
City Bankers, 1890-1914 is a major contribution to a controversial area of economic history and to the debate about the nature of British society in the late Victorian and Edwardian eras. It provides a detailed analysis of the banking community of London between 1890 and 1914 when the City of London was the undisputed financial centre of the world.
The Morgans
Author: Vincent P. CarossoPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674587298
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 940
Book Description
The House of Morgan personified economic power in the late 19th/early 20th centuries. Carosso constructs an in-depth account of the evolution, operations, and management of the Morgan banks at London, New York, Philadelphia, and Paris, from the time Junius Spencer Morgan left Boston for London to the death of his son, John Pierpont Morgan.
The Oxford Handbook of Banking and Financial History
Author: Youssef CassisPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191633216
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
The financial crisis of 2008 aroused widespread interest in banking and financial history among policy makers, academics, journalists, and even bankers, in addition to the wider public. References in the press to the term 'Great Depression' spiked after the failure of Lehman Brothers in November 2008, with similar surges in references to 'economic history' at various times during the financial turbulence. In an attempt to better understand the magnitude of the shock, there was a demand for historical parallels. How severe was the financial crash? Was it, in fact, the most severe financial crisis since the Great Depression? Were its causes unique or part of a well-known historical pattern? And have financial crises always led to severe depressions? Historical reflection on the recent financial crises and the long-term development of the financial system go hand in hand. This volume provides the material for such a reflection by presenting the state of the art in banking and financial history. Nineteen highly regarded experts present chapters on the economic and financial side of banking and financial activities, primarily though not solely in advanced economies, in a long-term comparative perspective. In addition to paying attention to general issues, not least those related to theoretical and methodological aspects of the discipline, the volume approaches the banking and financial world from four distinct but interrelated angles: financial institutions, financial markets, financial regulation, and financial crises.
France and the Economic Development of Europe, 1800-1914
Author: Rondo E. CameronPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415190114
Category : Economic development
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: David S. Landes