A Financial History of the Netherlands

ISBN-13: 9780521581615 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 252 str.

Marjolein T. Hart; Jan Luiten van Zanden; Joost Jonker

Opis

This book is the first full overview of Dutch financial history from the sixteenth century to the present day. It is replete with data and figures drawn from fresh research for the key elements that determined the development of public finance, currency and banking. It provides a step-by-step description of the evolution of the financial systems in one of the pioneer countries of modern finance.

Recenzje

"The detail of this volume offers much insight to the specialist reader on a banking structure rather different from most European and American systems." J. Murdock, Choice

Spis treści

List of figures; List of tables; 1. Introduction Marjolein 't Hart, Joost Jonker, and Jan Luiten van Zanden; 2. The merits of financial revolution: public finance 1550–1700 Marjolein 't Hart; 3. Linking the fortunes: currency and banking 1550–1800 Pit Dehing and Marjolein 't Hart; 4. From fragmentation to unification: public finance 1700–1914 Wante Fritschy and René van der Voort; 5. The alternative road to modernity: banking and currency 1814–1914 Joost Jonker; 6. Old rules, new conditions, 1914–1940 Jan Luiten van Zanden; 7. Towards a new maturity, 1940–1990 Jaap Barendregt and Hans Visser; 8. Conclusion Marjolein 't Hart, Joost Jonker, and Jan Luiten van Zanden; Bibliography; Glossary; Index.