A Concise History of International Finance From Babylon to Bernanke

Preface
1 Introduction
2 Distant beginnings: the first 3000 years
3 The Italians invent modern finance
4 The rise of international financial capitalism: the seventeenth century.pdf‎
5 The “Big Bang” of financial capitalism: financing and re-financing the Mississippi and South Sea Companies, 1688-1720.pdf‎
6 The rise and spread of financial capitalism, 1720-1789.pdf‎
7 Financial innovations during the “birth of the modern,” 1789–1830: a tale of three revolutions
8 British recovery and attempts to imitate in the US, France, and Germany, 1825–1850
9 Financial globalization takes off: the spread of sterling and the rise of the gold standard, 1848–1879
10 The first global financial market and the classical gold standard, 1880-1914.pdf‎
11 The Thirty Years War and the disruption of international finance, 1914-1944
12 The Bretton Woods era and the re-emergence of international finance, 1945-1973
13 From turmoil to the “Great Moderation,” 1973–2007
14 The sub-prime crisis and the aftermath, 2007-2014
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