Youssef Cassis

Capitals of Capital (eBook, PDF)

A History of International Financial Centres 1780-2005

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

International financial centres have come to represent a major economic stake. Yet no historical study has been devoted to them. Professor Cassis, a leading financial historian, attempts to fill this gap by providing a comparative history of the most important centres that constitute the capitals of capital - New York, London, Frankfurt, Paris, Zurich, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore - from the beginning of the industrial age up to the present. The book has been conceived as a reflection on the dynamics of the rise and decline of international financial centres, setting them in their economic, political, social, and cultural context. While rooted in a strong and lively historical narrative, it draws on the concepts of financial economics in its analysis of events. It should widely appeal to business and finance professionals as well as to scholars and students in financial and economic history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511332005
• Artikelnr.: 38206356

Autorenporträt

Youssef Cassis is Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Geneva. His work mainly focuses on banking and financial history, as well as business history more generally. His numerous publications on this subject include City Bankers 1890¿1914 (1994) and Big Business: The European Experience in the Twentieth Century (1997).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; 1. The age of private bankers, 1780
1840; 2. The concentration of capital, 1840
1875; 3. A globalised world, 1875
1914; 4. Wars and depression, 1914
1945; 5. Growth and regulation, 1945
1980; 6. Globalisation, innovation and crisis, 1980
2009; Conclusion; Glossary.