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Premodern Financial Systems Raymond W. Goldsmith

Premodern Financial Systems By Raymond W. Goldsmith

Premodern Financial Systems by Raymond W. Goldsmith


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Premodern Financial Systems: A Historical Comparative Study 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.

Premodern Financial Systems Summary

Premodern Financial Systems: A Historical Comparative Study by Raymond W. Goldsmith

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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NLS9780521068604
9780521068604
0521068606
Premodern Financial Systems: A Historical Comparative Study by Raymond W. Goldsmith
New
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2008-07-10
364
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