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Sto caricando le informazioni... International government finance and the Amsterdam capital market, 1740-1815di James Riley
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. I don't consider it impossible for someone to write an informative and educational book for non-specialists on capital markets and government finance in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, but this is not it. I don't know if its based on the author's PhD thesis or not, but it clearly presupposes a professional understanding of both finance and 18th century European history. And even if you do have the necessary background expertise, I'm still not sure if I would recommend this book. It seemed to me that the author didn't have much skill for building up clear arguments and expressing logical conclusions. He seems to be more of a "pile up the facts" author. But I admit that I was so far below the surface when reading this book that I cannot reasonably consider myself capable of assessing its content. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
During the eighteenth century European governments began systematically using an international credit structure whose centre was the Amsterdam capital market. This book reconstructs that system and surveys its principal effects on the European and especially the Dutch economies. Eighteenth-century states borrowed chiefly to finance wars and, increasingly toward the century's end, debts from earlier wars. Military and naval spending and debt service together consumed up to eighty percent of peacetime revenues and more in war. Borrowing on international markets stabilised previously disruptive deficit financing techniques and moderated the economic consequences of sharply irregular war spending. This development however, eased the problems of war-making more than it developed national economies or enhanced prosperity. The Dutch, heretofore seen as having squandered the advantage of cheap credit, actually faced the difficult problem of finding productive uses for their savings at satisfactory returns. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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