The London Stock Exchange : a history
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The London Stock Exchange : a history
Oxford University Press, c1999
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Description based on 2007 reprinting
Includes bibliographical references (p. [653]-664) and index
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In 2001, the London Stock Exchange will be 200 years old, though its origins go back a century before that. This book traces the history of the London Stock Exchange from its beginnings around 1700 to the present day, chronicling the challenges and opportunities it has faced, avoided, or exploited over the years.
Throughout, this history seeks to blend an understanding of the London Stock Exchange as an institution with that of the securities market of which it was, and is, such an important component. One cannot be examined satisfactorily without the other. Without a knowledge of both, for example, the causes of the `Big Bang' of 1986 would forever remain a mystery. However, the history of the London Stock Exchange is not just worthy of study for what it reveals about the interaction between
institution and market. Such was the importance of the London Stock Exchange that its rise to world dominance before 1914, its decline thereafter, and its renaissance from the mid-1980s, explain a great deal about Britain's own economic performance and the working of the international economy.
For the first time a British economic institution of foremost importance is studied throughout its entire history, with regard to the roles played and the constraints under which it operated, and the results evaluated against the background of world economic progress.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- From Market to Exchange, 1693-1801
- From Money to Capital, 1801-51
- From Domestic to International, 1850-1914
- Shattered Dominance: The First World War, 1914-18
- Challenges and Opportunities, 1919-39
- The Changing Marketplace between Wars
- New Beginnings: The Second World War
- Recovery and Crisis, 1945-9
- Drifting towards Oblivion, 1950-9
- Failing to Adjust, 1960-9
- Prelude to Change, 1970-9
- Big Bang
- Black Hole
- Conclusion
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