Capitals of capital : a history of international financial centres, 1780-2005 /
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...
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2006.
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Table of Contents:
- List of tables
- Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. The age of private bankers, 1780-1840
- The grandeur and decline of Amsterdam
- The rise of the City of London
- The revival of Paris
- The lesser centres
- Interactions and networks of relationships
- 2. The concentration of capital, 1840-1875
- The banking revolution
- The railway adventure
- Rivalry between London and Paris
- The rise and fall of the lesser centres
- 3. A globalised world, 1875-1914
- The globalisation of the world economy
- World financial capital : the City of London
- A brilliant second : Paris
- The rise of Berlin
- The rising star : New York
- Niches and specialisations
- Competition and cooperation
- The Belle Epoque of the bankers.
- 4. Wars and depression, 1914-1945
- The Great War
- The roaring twenties
- The years of crisis
- The Second World War
- 5. Growth and regulation, 1945-1980
- The difficult return to convertibility
- The birth and development of the Euromarkets
- The dawn of globalisation
- 6. Globalisation and financial innovation, 1980-2005
- The new world economy
- The leading financial centres at the dawn of the twenty-first century
- Conclusion
- Glossary
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
