Capitals of Capital - The Rise and Fall of International Financial Centres 1780-2009

Informationen zum Autor Youssef Cassis is Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Geneva. His work mainly focuses on banking and financial history, as well as business history more generally. His numerous publications on this subject include City Bankers 1890-1914 (1994) and Big Business: The European Experience in the Twentieth Century (1997). Klappentext This updated edition of the first comparative history of international financial centres incorporates the crisis gripping capitals of capital today. Zusammenfassung This acclaimed history of international financial centres has been updated to cover the challenges posed by the financial collapse of 2007–8. Exploring the dynamics of the rise and decline of the financial centres, it provides the longer term framework necessary to understand the crisis gripping capitals of capital today. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The age of private bankers, 1780-1840; 2. The concentration of capital, 1840-75; 3. A globalised world, 1875-1914; 4. Wars and depression, 1914-45; 5. Growth and regulation, 1945-80; 6. Globalisation, innovation and crisis, 1980-2009; Conclusion; Glossary.

Product details

• Authors: Youssef Cassis
• Assisted by: Jacqueline Collier (Translation)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2009
• EAN: 9780521144049
• ISBN: 978-0-521-14404-9
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 230 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Finanzwirtschaft