Premodern financial systems : a historical comparative study

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Premodern financial systems : a historical comparative study

Raymond W. Goldsmith

Cambridge University Press, 1987

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Description

Premodern Financial Systems: A Historical Comparative sStudy describes (in quantitative terms whenever possible) the financial superstructure, such as the method of financing the government, and links it to the essential characteristics of the infrastructure of nearly a dozen societies ranging from Athens in the late fifth century BC to the United Provinces in the mid-seventeenth century. The main features of the financial superstructures discussed are the monetary system, the types of financial instruments and institutions, interest rates, and the methods of financing agriculture, non-agricultural business, households, foreign trade, and government. Aspects of the infrastructures covered include population, urbanization, prices, national output, wealth, and their sectoral and size distribution.

Table of Contents

  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The financial systems of the ancient Near East
  • 3. The financial system of Periclean Athens
  • 4. The financial system of Augustan Rome
  • 5. The financial system of the early Abbasid caliphate
  • 6. The financial system of the Ottoman Empire at the death of Suleiman I
  • 7. The financial system of Mughal India at the death of Akbar
  • 8. The financial system of early Tokugawa Japan
  • 9. The financial system of Medici Florence
  • 10. The financial system of Elizabethan England
  • 11. The financial system of the United Provinces at the Peace of Munster
  • 12. Similarities and differences.

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Details

  • NCID
    BA01134709
  • ISBN
    • 9780521329477
    • 9780521068604
  • LCCN
    86021558
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Cambridge ; New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    xii, 348 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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