European Banks and the Rise of International Finance: The Post-Bretton Woods Era

ISBN-13: 9780367876944 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 276 str.

Carlo Edoardo Altamura

Opis

This book examines the historical origins of the financialised world we live in by analysing the transformations in world finance which occurred in the decade from the first oil crisis of 1973, until the debt crisis of 1982. This a crucial and formative decade for understanding the modern financial landscape, but it is still mostly unexplor

Spis treści

List of Archives

List of Abbreviations

Acknowledgements

Preface

INTRODUCTION - ‘Post Fata Resurgo’: At the Origins of Modern Finance

CHAPTER I - Halcyon Days

CHAPTER II- Half Measures

CHAPTER III- The Impact of Oil

CHAPTER IV- Full Measures

CHAPTER V- Wuthering Heights

References

O autorze

Carlo Edoardo Altamura is a postdoctoral fellow at the Paul Bairoch Institute of Economic History at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, a visiting college research associate at Wolfson College, Cambridge, UK, and a visiting scholar at the Faculty of History of the University of Cambridge, UK. His interests lie in post-war banking and financial history in the West and in the developing regions.