Capitals of capital : the rise and fall of international financial centeres, 1780-2009
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Capitals of capital : the rise and fall of international financial centeres, 1780-2009
Cambridge University Press, 2010
- : pbk
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  Toyama
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  Kyoto
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  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
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  Tokushima
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  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
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  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
First expanded paperback edition
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. The age of private bankers, 1780-1840
- 2. The concentration of capital, 1840-75
- 3. A globalised world, 1875-1914
- 4. Wars and depression, 1914-45
- 5. Growth and regulation, 1945-80
- 6. Globalisation, innovation and crisis, 1980-2009
- Conclusion
- Glossary.
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