Credit and Power: The Paradox at the Heart of the British National Debt

ISBN-13: 9780367614973 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 256 str.

Simon Sherratt

Opis

This book reveals the role that credit played in the raising of British war loans between 1793 and 1815. It shows how, paradoxically, the government’s creditors had very little "real" money to lend and were often reliant for their own solvency upon the very government to which they were lending.

Spis treści

1. Context: The Financial Revolution  2. The Bank of England and the Suspension of Cash Payments (1797–1821)  3. Government Loan Contracting, 1793–1810  4. The House of Rothschild  5. Taxation  6. Peace and Its Consequences, 1815–1821  7. Conclusion

O autorze

Simon Sherratt is an economic historian interested in the National Debt, government loan-contracting, credit and "money creation."