Banking Currency And Finance In Europe Between The Wars

Author : Charles H. Feinstein
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780191521669
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Banking, Currency, and Finance in Europe Between the Wars written by Charles H. Feinstein and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1995-09-28 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The financial history of interwar Europe was dominated by catastrophic episodes of hyper-inflation, dramatic exchange rate crises, massive and destabilizing movements of gold and capital, and extensive banking failures. In their attempt to restore and sustain the gold standard as the basis of the international monetary system, many countries were compelled to resort to deflationary fiscal and monetary policies of exceptional severity. The policies thus adopted in the 1920s were a major cause of the Great Depression of 1929-33; and this in turn exerted a powerful influence on the subsequent political and economic history of the 1930s. This collection of essays is the work of an international network of economic historians from Europe and the United States convened by the European Science Foundation. It brings together, in an accessible style, current knowledge and understanding of the nature and effects of these developments in banking, currency, and finance in the interwar period. The topics are examined at three levels. In Part I a substantial introductory survey of the central issues over the entire period is followed by special studies of the banking crises, the global capital flows, and the interrelationship of economic and political policies, with each of these themes considered in an international perspective. Part II is devoted to illuminating comparative analyses of the financial and exchange policies of pairs of countries; France and Italy, Britain and Germany, Sweden and Finland, and Belgium and France. In Part III the essays move to the level of individual countries and each contributor explores topics such as the form and efficacy of official banking and monetary policies, the role of the central bank, movements in the money supply and prices, the relationship between the banks and the industrial sector, changes in exchange rates and foreign capital investment. The volume covers all the major countries, and also makes available the results of recent research on banking and finance in smaller countries, such as Spain, Austria, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Bulgaria, and Ireland. The questions addressed by this book, and the temes and patterns it reveals, are relevant both to economic and political historians of the years between the two world wars, and to those interested in contemporary banking and financial problems.

Author : Charles P. Kindleberger
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113680577X
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book A Financial History of Western Europe written by Charles P. Kindleberger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-03 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first history of finance - broadly defined to include money, banking, capital markets, public and private finance, international transfers etc. - that covers Western Europe (with an occasional glance at the western hemisphere) and half a millennium. Charles Kindleberger highlights the development of financial institutions to meet emerging needs, and the similarities and contrasts in the handling of financial problems such as transferring resources from one country to another, stimulating investment, or financing war and cleaning up the resulting monetary mess. The first half of the book covers money, banking and finance from 1450 to 1913; the second deals in considerably finer detail with the twentieth century. This major work casts current issues in historical perspective and throws light on the fascinating, and far from orderly, evolution of financial institutions and the management of financial problems. Comprehensive, critical and cosmopolitan, this book is both an outstanding work of reference and essential reading for all those involved in the study and practice of finance, be they economic historians, financial experts, scholarly bankers or students of money and banking. This groundbreaking work was first published in 1984.

Author : ALESSANDRO ROSELLI
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137327006
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Money and Trade Wars in Interwar Europe written by ALESSANDRO ROSELLI and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-29 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This books explains, on the basis of archival evidence and a simple economic model, why and how the gold standard collapsed in the interwar period. It also reveals how bilateralism and dirigisme in international financial relations emerged from the collapse of the universal gold standard, and how this poisoned international relations.

Author : Paul Einzig
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113626499X
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book World Finance Since 1914 (RLE Banking & Finance) written by Paul Einzig and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-06 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charting developments in one of the most turbulent periods of economic history, this far reaching volume covers the problems facing the major economies of Europe in the inter-war years. It also discusses global economic policies and the crises for the world’s major currencies. Although it covers complex themes, the book is written in an accessible way even for the non-specialist.

Author : Paul Herman Emden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Money Powers of Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries written by Paul Herman Emden and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Poor Kindleberger
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book A Financial History of Western Europe written by Charles Poor Kindleberger and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised and updated throughout, this brilliant survey of European financial history from the earliest times to the present by internationally renowned scholar and author Charles P. Kindleberger offers a comprehensive account of the evolution of money in Western Europe, bimetallism and theemergence of the gold standard, the banking systems of the Continent and the British Isles, and overviews of foreign investment, regional and global financial integration, and private and public finance in Western Europe. The new edition features expanded coverage of the sixteenth and seventeenthcenturies and important new material on recent developments in European monetary integration.

Author : Song Hongbing
Publisher : Omnia Veritas Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781913890605
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Currency Wars III: Financial High Frontiers written by Song Hongbing and published by Omnia Veritas Limited. This book was released on 2021-11-12 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Currency, which has been overlooked by historians, is precisely the key to unlocking many historical puzzles, the compass to discern the maze of today's reality, and the telescope to discover the road to the future. In the course of studying the financial history of Europe, America, China and Japan, I have a growing feeling that finance is the "fourth dimensional frontier" that a sovereign country must defend. The concept of the frontiers of sovereign states does not only include the three-dimensional physical space constituted by the land, sea and air frontiers (including space), but in the future it needs to include a new dimension: finance. The importance of the financial high frontier will become increasingly important in the coming era of cloudy international currency wars. From the path of financial evolution in Europe and the United States, it can be clearly found that the currency standard, central banks, financial networks, trading markets, financial institutions and clearing centers together constitute the system architecture of financial high frontier. The main purpose of this system is to ensure efficient and secure resource mobilization for currency pairs. From the source of the central bank to create money, to the customer terminal that eventually accepts money; from the dense network of money flow, to the clearing center of funds remittance; from the trading market of financial instruments, to the rating system of credit assessment; from the soft regulation of the financial legal system, to the construction of rigid financial infrastructure; from the huge financial institutions, to efficient industry associations; from complex financial products, to simple investment instruments, the financial high frontier protects the monetary blood from the heart of the central bank, to the financial capillaries and even the whole body economic cells, and eventually back to the central bank's circulation system.

Author : Roberto Di Quirico
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788883980978
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book A Europe Apart written by Roberto Di Quirico and published by . This book was released on 2020-06 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book combines history and political analysis of monetary integration in the European Union (EU) and discusses the main consequences of the euro on both member states' domestic politics and the EU's institutions and policies. The book is structured in three parts. In part I, historical analysis demonstrates that monetary instability and the need for international coordination in currency affairs emerged before political integration became an option. This suggests that monetary and political integration are convergent processes instead of two interconnected components of the wider European integration. Besides, the history of European monetary integration shows that many policies proposed today to face the euro and European crises had been discussed and tested in the past and that results were strictly connected to the specific conditions of the moment. Such a policy analysis-oriented approach to monetary history permits discussing with a different and innovative perspective the actual problems of monetary integration and the unmasking of misleading views of European integration widely diffused in the political debate since the end of the 2000s. Part II and part III discuss the political dimension of the European Economic and Monetary Union's (EMU) problems and the impact on member states' domestic politics. These sections consider themes such as EU institutional transformation, the new EU governance model that emerged due to the crisis, the problematic relationship between European integration and national democracy, and, finally, the role of monetary integration and opposition to the euro in feeding the growing electoral consensus in favour of populist parties. A conclusive chapter summarises the main results of this long-term analysis and answers some research questions anticipated in this book's introduction about the real nature and consequences of monetary integration.

Author : Vitor Gaspar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789291813483
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Transformation of the European Financial System written by Vitor Gaspar and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter Temin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198042019
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The World Economy between the Wars written by Peter Temin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-02-12 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The European Economy between the Wars, (OUP, 1997) has become the definitive economic history of Europe in the inter-war period. Placing the Great Depression of 1929-33 and the associated financial crisis at the center of the narrative, the authors comprehensively examined the lead-up to and consequences of the depression and recovery. The authors now expand their scope to include the entire world economy, and have created a new edition: The World Economy between the Wars. New material focuses on the structure of the world economy in the 1920s, including a special focus on the United States, Japan, and Latin America.