Explaining monetary and financial innovation : a historical analysis / Peter Bernholz, Roland Vaubel, editors.

This book discusses theories of monetary and financial innovation and applies them to key monetary and financial innovations in history - starting with the use of silver bars in Mesopotamia and ending with the emergence of the Eurodollar market in London. The key monetary innovations are coinage (As...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Other Authors: Bernholz, Peter (Editor), Vaubel, Roland (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer, 2014.
Series:Financial and monetary policy studies ; v. 39.
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Table of Contents:
  • The Political Economy of Monetary and Financial Innovation byP. Bernholz andR. Vaubel.-Silver as a Financial Tool in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia by M. Van De Mieroop.-War and Peace, Imitation and Innovation, Backwardness and Development byD. M. Schaps
  • The Emergence and Spread of Coins in Ancient India by D.R. Reddy.-The Emergence and Spread of Coins in China from the Spring and Autumn Period to the Warring States Period by Y. Kakinuma.-The Changing Pattern of Achaemenid Persian Royal Coinage by C. Tuplin.-The Spread of Coins in the Hellenistic World by A. Meadows.-Monetary Innovation in Ancient Romeby B.E. WOYTEK.-The Provision of Stable Moneys by Florence and Venice, and North Italian Financial Innovations in the Renaissance Period byP. Spufford
  • Monetary and Financial Innovations in Flanders, Antwerp, London and Hamburg byM. A. Denzel.-The Bank of Amsterdam Through the Lens of Monetary Competition byS. QUINN, W. Roberds.-Monetary and Financial Innovation in the Spanish Empire by C. Alvarez-Nogal.-The Emergence and Innovations of the Eurodollar Money and Bond Marketby T. Saadma, R. Vaubel.