Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 472 g
Reihe: Financial History
The Role of Monetary Plurality
Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 472 g
Reihe: Financial History
ISBN: 978-1-138-31655-3
Verlag: CRC Press
The chapters analyse changes on banking regulation; study the social origin of banks’ promoters; investigate the economic results of banks; and evaluate the interaction between banks and the economy as a whole. Finally, the causes, extent and consequences of monetary plurality in Spain and its European context are discussed. As such, this book covers the gap that exists in the Spanish banking historiography. Until now only the Bank of Spain and its predecessors had been adequately examined. As the Bank of Spain acted mostly as the state’s financial agent, we know very little about private-sector financing. This text provides data and analysis for a more comprehensive view of early Spanish financial development in a comparative European framework. The Origins of Modern Banking in Spain should be considered essential reading for financial history students and scholars, as well as anybody interested in longview approaches to modern financial development.
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Introduction. 1. Money and banking in Europe, 1700–1890: the formation of new financial systems. 2. Banking regulation and the emergence of provincial banks in Spain. 3. Bourgeoisie and provincial banks: social origins of the new banking elite. 4. A profitability approach to Spanish banks’ performance: earnings and assets. 5. Provincial banks of issue and the Spanish economy: money and credit. 6. The unexpected end of monetary plurality: a premature demise? 7. A final assessment: Spanish banking development in nineteenth-century Europe.