Buch, Englisch, 920 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 1737 g
Buch, Englisch, 920 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 1737 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-870474-4
Verlag: ACADEMIC
Monetary law is essential to the functioning of private transactions and international dealings by the state: nearly every legal transaction has a monetary aspect. Money in the Western Legal Tradition presents the first comprehensive analysis of Western monetary law, covering the civil law and Anglo-American common law legal systems from the High Middle Ages up to the middle of the 20th century. Weaving a detailed tapestry of the changing concepts of money and private transactions throughout the ages, the contributors investigate the special contribution made by legal scholars and practitioners to our understanding of money and the laws that govern it.
Divided in five parts, the book begins with the coin currency of the Middle Ages, moving through the invention of nominalism in the early modern period to cashless payment and the rise of the banking system and paper money, then charting the progression to fiat money in the modern era. Each part commences with an overview of the monetary environment for the historical period written by an economic historian or numismatist. These are followed by chapters describing the legal doctrines of each period in civil and common law. Each section contains examples of contemporary litigation or statute law which engages with the distinctive issues affecting the monetary law of the period. This interdisciplinary approach reveals the distinctive conception of money prevalent in each period, which either facilitated or hampered the implementation of economic policy and the operation of private transactions.
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Fachgebiete
- Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike
- Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Antiquitäten, Sammelobjekte
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Geschichte der VWL
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
Weitere Infos & Material
- 1: David Fox, François R. Velde, and Wolfgang Ernst: Introduction
- 2: Christine Desan: Money as a Legal Institution
- Part I. The Late Middle Ages: Coins and the Law
- Currency Depreciation and Debasement in Medieval Europe
- Money in Medieval PhilosophyThe Last Scholastic on Money: Gabriel Biel's Monetary Theory
- Part II. Civil Law
- Money in the Roman Law Texts
- The Legists' Doctrines on Money and the Law from the Eleventh to Fifteenth Centuries
- Money in Medieval Canon Law
- The 'Reduction' of Money in the Low Countries c. 1489-1515.
- Part III. Money in the Early Modern Period: The Triumph of Nominalism
- Monetary Reforms in the Holy Roman Empire in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
- The Enforcement of Nominal Values to Money in the Medieval and Early Modern Common Law
- The Case of Mixt Monies (1604)The Effect of Debasements on Pre-existing Debts in Early Modern Jurisprudence
- Spanish Scholastics on Money and Credit
- German Law Faculties and Benches of Jurymen (Schöffenstühle) on Loans and Inflation: Legal Doctrine and Seventeenth Century Legal Practice
- Monetary and Currency Problems in the Light of Early Modern Litigation
- Part III. The Evolution of Cashless Payment: Bank Money
- Early Public Banks I: Ledger-Money Banks
- 'Bank Money': The Rise, Fall, and Metamorphosis of the 'Transferable Deposit'
- Early English Law of Checks
- The Order to Pay Money in Medieval Continental Europe
- Giro Payments and the Beginning of the Modern Cashless Payment System
- Part IV. The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: The Emergence of Paper Money
- Early Public Banks II: Banks of Issue
- Deposit Banking and the Use of Monetary Instruments
- Early English Law of Bank Notes
- Banknotes and their Vindication in Eighteenth-Century Scotland
- Multiple Currency Clauses and Currency Reform: The Austrian Coupon Cases
- Part V. The Twentieth Century: Fiat Money
- Putting the 'System' in the International Monetary System
- The Bretton Woods System: Design and Operation
- From the State Theory of Money to Modern Money: An Alternative to Ecomomic Orthodoxy
- Hyperinflations of the Early Twentieth Century
- Responses to Crisis: Refiguring the Monetary and the Fiscal in the Great Depression
- Monetary Obligations and the Fragmentation of the Sterling Monetary Union
- The German Hyperinflation of the 1920s
- Case Study: Swedish Government Bonds, their Gold Dollar Clause, and the 1933 Roosevelt Act - Georges Sauser-Halls Opinion on Loans issued by the Government of Sweden
