How a Ledger Became a Central Bank - A Monetary History of the Bank of Amsterdam

"A quantitative history of the Bank of Amsterdam, a dominant central bank for much of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This book should interest monetary economists, scholars of central bank history, and historians of the Dutch Republic"--

List of contents

1. Similar yet different?; 2. The world of the bank; 3. Coins in eighteenth-century Amsterdam; 4. First steps, 1609-1659; 5. Emergence of the receipt system, 1660-1710; 6. Metal in motion: the mechanics of receipts; 7. Two banks and one money, 1711-1791; 8. Prussia's debasement during the Seven Years War: the role of the Bank; 9. The bank's place in central bank history.

About the author

Stephen Quinn is a Professor of Economics at Texas Christian University. He has published extensively on the origins of banking in London and Amsterdam, which has awarded him a visiting lectureship at the Bank of England and a New York Times Magazine Idea of the Year.William Roberds is a research economist and senior advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. He has been an economist with the Federal Reserve since 1984 and has published academic research in the areas of finance, monetary policy, payment systems, and central bank history.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Quinn, Stephen (Texas Christian University) Roberd Quinn, William Roberds, Roberds William
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2023
• EAN: 9781108484275
• ISBN: 978-1-108-48427-5
• No. of pages: 400
• Series: Studies in Macroeconomic History
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Macroeconomics, macroeconomics, Politics and government