Prometheus shackled
Temin, Peter.
Prometheus shackled Goldsmith Banks and England's financial revolution after 1700 / [electronic resource] : Peter Temin and Hans-Joachim Voth. - New York : Oxford University Press, 2013. - 1 online resource : ill.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Using new archival data from goldsmith banks, Temin and Voth document how government regulation and wartime financing stifled the growth of private credit markets during the Industrial Revolution. They show how, after a turbulent start, banks adapted and found a way to grow, but how the economy at large lost out.
9780199980789 (ebook) : No price
Banks and banking--History.--Great Britain
Finance--History.--Great Britain
HG2987 / .T46 2013
332.1094109033
Prometheus shackled Goldsmith Banks and England's financial revolution after 1700 / [electronic resource] : Peter Temin and Hans-Joachim Voth. - New York : Oxford University Press, 2013. - 1 online resource : ill.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Using new archival data from goldsmith banks, Temin and Voth document how government regulation and wartime financing stifled the growth of private credit markets during the Industrial Revolution. They show how, after a turbulent start, banks adapted and found a way to grow, but how the economy at large lost out.
9780199980789 (ebook) : No price
Banks and banking--History.--Great Britain
Finance--History.--Great Britain
HG2987 / .T46 2013
332.1094109033