Money and Finance in the Age of Merchant Capitalism

This book examines the monetary and financial structures of pre-industrial capitalism from the thirteenth to the eighteenth centuries. The coverage ranges widely across the whole of Europe with particular attention to the role of the money supply in long term economic movements. The author also discusses the question of business cycles and financial crises as dealt with by historians of the French Annales school, notably by Marc Bloch and Fernand Braudel.

First sentence: There is a risk in monetary history confounding past and present.

Year

1998

Language

English

Publisher

Blackwell Publishers

Editions

1

Pages

165

ISBN

9780631212256

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