Cambridge University PressEdition: Reissue, 6/24/2010EAN 9780521147415, ISBN10: 0521147417Paperback, 362 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cmLanguage: EnglishThis volume includes ten essays dealing with financial and other forms of economic intermediation in Europe, Canada, and the United States since the seventeenth century. Each relates the development of institutions to economic change and describes their evolution over time, as well as discussing several different forms of intermediation, and deals with significant economic and historical issues.List of contributorsPrefaceIntroductionPart I. Financial Intermediaries in Europe1. Markets and institutions in the rise of London as a financial center in the seventeenth century Larry Neal and Steven Quinn2. The Paris bourse, 1724–1814experiments in microstructure Eugene N. White3. No exitnotarial bankruptcies and the evolution of financial intermediation in nineteenth century Paris Philip T. Hoffman, Giles Postel-Vinay, and Jean-Laurent RosenthalPart II. Financial Intermediaries in the Americas4. The mortgage market in Upper Canadawindow on a pioneer economy Angela Redish5. Integration of US capital marketssouthern stock markets and the case of New Orleans, 1871–1913 John B. Legler and Richard Sylla6. The transition from building and loan to savings and loan, 1890–1940 Kenneth A. SnowdenPart III. Other Forms of Intermediation7. Intermediaries in the US market for Technology, 1870–1920 Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Kenneth L. Sokoloff8. Beyond Chinatownoverseas Chinese intermediaries on the multiethnic North-American Pacific coast in the age of financial capital Diane Newell9. Finance and capital accumulation in a planned economythe agricultural surplus hypothesis and Soviet economic development, 1928–39 Robert C. Allen10. Was adherence to the gold standard a 'good housekeeping seal of approval' during the interwar period? Michael Bordo, Michael Edelstein, and Hugh RockoffAfterwordabout Lance DavisIndex.
