The Roots Of Western Finance

Author : Thomas K. Park,James B.Greenberg
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781498545822

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In The Roots of Western Finance: Power, Ethics, and Social Capital in the Ancient World, Thomas K. Park and James B. Greenberg take an anthropological approach to credit. They suggest that financial activities occur in a complex milieu, in which specific parties, with particular motives, achieve their goals using a form of social, cultural, or economic agency. They examine the imbrication of finance and hidden interests in Mesopotamia, ancient Egypt, classical Greece and Rome, the early Judeo-Christian traditions, and the Islamic world to illuminate the ties between social, ethical, and financial institutions. This unique breadth of research provides new perspectives on Mesopotamian ways of incentivizing production through financial arrangements, the source of Egyptian surpluses, linguistics and usury, metrological influences on finance, and the enduring importance of honor and social capital. This book not only illustrates the particular cultural logics that drove these ancient economies, it also depicts how modern society’s financial techniques, ethics, and concerns with justice are attributable to a rich multicultural history.

Author : Thomas K. Park,James B. Greenberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1498545815

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The Roots of Western Finance by Thomas K. Park,James B. Greenberg Pdf

In The Roots of Western Finance, Thomas K. Park and James B. Greenberg take an anthropological approach to origins of western finance and credit in ancient societies, covering a period of five thousand years from ancient Mesopotamia to the Islamic world in the eleventh century. Park and Greenberg reveal that credit is not simply an economic transaction; it is a social relationship and a technology of power.

Author : Charles P. Kindleberger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136805776

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A Financial History of Western Europe by Charles P. Kindleberger Pdf

This is the first history of finance - broadly defined to include money, banking, capital markets, public and private finance, international transfers etc. - that covers Western Europe (with an occasional glance at the western hemisphere) and half a millennium. Charles Kindleberger highlights the development of financial institutions to meet emerging needs, and the similarities and contrasts in the handling of financial problems such as transferring resources from one country to another, stimulating investment, or financing war and cleaning up the resulting monetary mess. The first half of the book covers money, banking and finance from 1450 to 1913; the second deals in considerably finer detail with the twentieth century. This major work casts current issues in historical perspective and throws light on the fascinating, and far from orderly, evolution of financial institutions and the management of financial problems. Comprehensive, critical and cosmopolitan, this book is both an outstanding work of reference and essential reading for all those involved in the study and practice of finance, be they economic historians, financial experts, scholarly bankers or students of money and banking. This groundbreaking work was first published in 1984.

Author : James B. Greenberg,Thomas K. Park
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781498545792

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Hidden Interests in Credit and Finance by James B. Greenberg,Thomas K. Park Pdf

Hidden Interests in Credit and Finance takes an anthropological approach to the roots of Western finance and credit in ancient societies from early Mesopotamia to eleventh-century Islam. The authors reveal that credit is not just an economic transaction but also a social relationship and a technology of power.

Author : Charles P. Kindleberger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136805783

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A Financial History of Western Europe by Charles P. Kindleberger Pdf

This is the first history of finance - broadly defined to include money, banking, capital markets, public and private finance, international transfers etc. - that covers Western Europe (with an occasional glance at the western hemisphere) and half a millennium. Charles Kindleberger highlights the development of financial institutions to meet emerging needs, and the similarities and contrasts in the handling of financial problems such as transferring resources from one country to another, stimulating investment, or financing war and cleaning up the resulting monetary mess. The first half of the book covers money, banking and finance from 1450 to 1913; the second deals in considerably finer detail with the twentieth century. This major work casts current issues in historical perspective and throws light on the fascinating, and far from orderly, evolution of financial institutions and the management of financial problems. Comprehensive, critical and cosmopolitan, this book is both an outstanding work of reference and essential reading for all those involved in the study and practice of finance, be they economic historians, financial experts, scholarly bankers or students of money and banking. This groundbreaking work was first published in 1984.

Author : Ji Zhaojin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317478072

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A History of Modern Shanghai Banking: The Rise and Decline of China's Financial Capitalism by Ji Zhaojin Pdf

As the center of capitalism in China, Shanghai banking provides a unique perspective for assessing the impact of the changes from financial capitalism to socialist planning banking in the early 1950s, and for evaluating the reform of China's banking system since the 1980s. This book offers a comprehensive history of Shanghai banking and capital markets from 1842 to 1952, and illustrates the non-financial elements that contributed to the revolutionary social and financial changes since the 1950s, as well as financial experiences that are significant to China's economic development today. The book describes the rise and fall of China's traditional native banks, the establishment of foreign banks, and the creation of modern state banks, while focusing on the colorful world of banking, finance, and international relations in modern Shanghai. It assesses the Chinese government's intervention in banking and finance during the Qing dynasty and the Republican era, as well as the concept of state capitalism after the establishment of the People's Republic. The author examines various modern-style Chinese banks through fascinating stories of Shanghai bankers. In addition, she provides detailed coverage of market-oriented international trade, banking associations, the conflicts between state and society, the government involvement in business, the management of foreign exchange, joint venture banks, wartime banking and finance, hyperinflation, corruption, and banking nationalization.

Author : A. Belouafi,A. Belabes,C. Trullols
Publisher : Springer
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137263698

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Islamic Finance in Western Higher Education by A. Belouafi,A. Belabes,C. Trullols Pdf

This is the first of its kind in its topical coverage of the developments and prospects of Islamic finance education at Western higher education. Intended to establish itself as a unique reference for academics and researchers this book gives an insight into ethics and values in curricula development at business schools and in finance departments.

Author : Charles Poor Kindleberger
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105011726135

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A Financial History of Western Europe by Charles Poor Kindleberger Pdf

Revised and updated throughout, this brilliant survey of European financial history from the earliest times to the present by internationally renowned scholar and author Charles P. Kindleberger offers a comprehensive account of the evolution of money in Western Europe, bimetallism and theemergence of the gold standard, the banking systems of the Continent and the British Isles, and overviews of foreign investment, regional and global financial integration, and private and public finance in Western Europe. The new edition features expanded coverage of the sixteenth and seventeenthcenturies and important new material on recent developments in European monetary integration.

Author : John Thomas Scharf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 898 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Allegany County (Md.)
ISBN : UIUC:30112079455249

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History of Western Maryland by John Thomas Scharf Pdf

Author : Alexei Vassiliev
Publisher : Saqi
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780863567612

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King Faisal by Alexei Vassiliev Pdf

In 1964 Faisal bin Abdul Aziz became king of a country holding a quarter of the world's oil reserves, also home to Mecca and Medina. He was called 'the most powerful Arab ruler in centuries'. Eleven years later, in front of television cameras, his nephew shot him at point-blank range. In this authoritative biography, Alexei Vassiliev tells the story of a pious, cautious and resolute leader who steered Saudi Arabia through a minefield of domestic problems, inter-Arab relations and the decline of Soviet influence in the Middle East. King Faisal maintained ties with both Egypt and the United States through two Arab-Israeli wars and the 1973 Arab oil embargo, which revolutionized the world energy market. Throughout, he staked high hopes on cooperation with the US, a relationship that is still vital to both countries' interests.

Author : Charles Poor Kindleberger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0415378508

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A Financial History of Western Europe by Charles Poor Kindleberger Pdf

Author : Jacques Rossel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Christianity
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017562641

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The Roots of Western Europe by Jacques Rossel Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Corporations
ISBN : PSU:000066717393

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Corporation Annual Reports to Shareholders by Anonim Pdf

Author : James Harvey Robinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Europe
ISBN : UCAL:$B47970

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An Introduction to the History of Western Europe by James Harvey Robinson Pdf

Author : Grant Lee Shumway
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1921
Category : Nebraska
ISBN : WISC:89063867865

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History of Western Nebraska and Its People by Grant Lee Shumway Pdf