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

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 unexplored in economic and financial history.

About the author

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.

Summary

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 unexplored in economic and financial history.

Product details

• Authors: Carlo Edoardo Altamura, Carlo Edoardo (University of Geneva Altamura, Altamura Carlo Edoardo
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 17.08.2016
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries
• EAN: 9781138191563
• ISBN: 978-1-138-19156-3
• Pages: 276
• Series: Routledge Explorations in Economic History; Routledge Explorations in Econ; Routledge Explorations in Economic History; Routledge Explorations in Econ
• Subjects: Europe, Business & Economics / General, Economics, Business and Management, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, Banking, Economic history, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, International Economics, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, International Finance, Sovereign debt crisis, monetary policy analysis, archival economic research, privatisation of capital markets, South-East Asia banking, post-1973 financial sector transformation, Latin American financial flows