1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910172227303321

Autore

Carruthers Bruce G.

Titolo

City of capital : politics and markets in the English financial revolution / / Bruce G. Carruthers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [1999]

©1996

ISBN

9786612473227

1-4008-2210-6

1-282-47322-0

1-4008-1118-X

Edizione

[Course Book]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (318 p.)

Disciplina

332/.0414

Soggetti

Capital market - History - 18th century

Capital market - History - 17th century

Great Britain Politics and government 18th century

Great Britain Politics and government 1689-1702

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-298) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- TABLES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CHAPTER ONE: Introduction -- CHAPTER TWO: British Politics from 1672 to 1712 -- CHAPTER THREE: Finance and State-Formation -- CHAPTER FOUR: Britain in Comparative Perspective -- CHAPTER FIVE. Financial Property Rights and the State -- CHAPTER SIX. Politics and the Joint-Stock Companies -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Trading on the London Stock Market -- CHAPTER EIGHT. Government Bonds and Political Bonds -- APPENDIX -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

While many have examined how economic interests motivate political action, Bruce Carruthers explores the reverse relationship by focusing on how political interests shape a market. He sets his inquiry within the context of late Stuart England, when an active stock market emerged and when Whig and Tory parties vied for control of a newly empowered Parliament. Carruthers examines the institutional linkage between politics and the market that consisted of three joint-stock companies--the Bank of England, the East India Company, and the South Sea



Company--which all loaned large sums to the government and whose shares dominated trading on the stock market. Through innovative research that connects the voting behavior of individuals in parliamentary elections with their economic behavior in the stock market, Carruthers demonstrates that party conflict figured prominently during the company foundings as Whigs and Tories tried to dominate company directorships. For them, the national debt was as much a political as a fiscal instrument.In 1712, the Bank was largely controlled by the Whigs, and the South Sea Company by the Tories. The two parties competed, however, for control of the East India Company, and so Whigs tended to trade shares only with Whigs, and Tories with Tories. Probing such connections between politics and markets at both institutional and individual levels, Carruthers ultimately argues that competitive markets are not inherently apolitical spheres guided by economic interest but rather ongoing creations of social actors pursuing multiple goals.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910220109803321

Autore

Medby Jamison Jo

Titolo

Street smart : intelligence preparation of the battlefield for urban operations / / Jamison Jo Medby, Russell W. Glenn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Santa Monica, CA, : Rand, 2002

ISBN

1-282-28306-5

9780833033751

9786612283062

0-8330-3375-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (178 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GlennRussell W

Disciplina

355.4/26

Soggetti

Urban warfare

Military intelligence - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Prepared for the United States Army."

"MR-1287-A"--P. [4] of cover.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-151).



Nota di contenuto

PREFACE; PREFACE; CONTENTS; CONTENTS; FIGURES; FIGURES; TABLES; TABLES; SUMMARY; SUMMARY; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; ABBREVIATIONS; Chapter One INTRODUCTION; Chapter One INTRODUCTION; Chapter Two INTELLIGENCE PREPARATION OF THE BATTLEFIELD: AN OVERVIEW; Chapter Two INTELLIGENCE PREPARATION OF THE BATTLEFIELD: AN OVERVIEW; CURRENT DOCTRINAL IPB STEP ONE: DEFINE THE BATTLEFIELD AREA; CURRENT DOCTRINAL IPB STEP ONE: DEFINE THE BATTLEFIELD AREA; CURRENT DOCTRINAL IPB STEP TWO: DESCRIBE THE BATTLEFIELD'S EFFECTS

CURRENT DOCTRINAL IPB STEP TWO: DESCRIBE THE BATTLEFIELD'S EFFECTS CURRENT DOCTRINAL IPB STEP THREE: EVALUATE THE THREAT; CURRENT DOCTRINAL IPB STEP THREE: EVALUATE THE THREAT; CURRENT DOCTRINAL IPB STEP FOUR: DEVELOP ENEMY COURSES OF ACTION; CURRENT DOCTRINAL IPB STEP FOUR: DEVELOP ENEMY COURSES OF ACTION; IDENTIFICATION AND INCORPORATION OF INTELLIGENCE REQUIREMENTS: HOW IPB FOCUSES OPERATIONAL PLANNING AND INTELLIGENCE GATHERING; IDENTIFICATION AND INCORPORATION OF INTELLIGENCE REQUIREMENTS: HOW IPB FOCUSES OPERATIONAL PLANNING AND INTELLIGENCE GATHERING

Chapter Three CHALLENGES POSED BY URBANIZED TERRAIN Chapter Three CHALLENGES POSED BY URBANIZED TERRAIN; UNDERLYING TERRAIN; UNDERLYING TERRAIN; BUILDINGS; BUILDINGS; INFRASTRUCTURE; INFRASTRUCTURE; PEOPLE; PEOPLE; SHORTFALLS IN CURRENT IPB DOCTRINE; SHORTFALLS IN CURRENT IPB DOCTRINE; Chapter Four IPB FOR URBAN OPERATIONS STEP ONE: DEFINE THE OPERATING ENVIRONMENT; Chapter Four IPB FOR URBAN OPERATIONS STEP ONE: DEFINE THE OPERATING ENVIRONMENT; DEFINING THE URBAN AREA OF OPERATIONS; DEFINING THE URBAN AREA OF OPERATIONS; URBAN AREA(S) OF INTEREST; URBAN AREA(S) OF INTEREST; URBAN BATTLE SPACE

URBAN BATTLE SPACE CHARACTERIZING RELEVANT FEATURES OF THE OPERATIONAL AREA AND IDENTIFYING INTELLIGENCE REQUIREMENTS; CHARACTERIZING RELEVANT FEATURES OF THE OPERATIONAL AREA AND IDENTIFYING INTELLIGENCE REQUIREMENTS; Chapter Five IPB FOR URBAN OPERATIONS STEP TWO: DESCRIBE THE OPERATING ENVIRONMENT'S EFFECTS; Chapter Five IPB FOR URBAN OPERATIONS STEP TWO: DESCRIBE THE OPERATING ENVIRONMENT'S EFFECTS; POPULATION ANALYSIS; POPULATION ANALYSIS; URBAN TERRAIN ANALYSIS; URBAN TERRAIN ANALYSIS; URBAN WEATHER ANALYSIS; URBAN WEATHER ANALYSIS; SUMMARY OF IPB STEP TWO FOR URBAN OPERATIONS

SUMMARY OF IPB STEP TWO FOR URBAN OPERATIONS Chapter Six IPB FOR URBAN OPERATIONS STEP THREE: IDENTIFY AND EVALUATE THREATS AND RELEVANT INFLUENCES; Chapter Six IPB FOR URBAN OPERATIONS STEP THREE: IDENTIFY AND EVALUATE THREATS AND RELEVANT INFLUENCES; CURRENT DILEMMAS OF THREAT EVALUATION FOR URBAN OPERATIONS; CURRENT DILEMMAS OF THREAT EVALUATION FOR URBAN OPERATIONS; IDENTIFYING THREATS AND RELEVANT INFLUENCES: THE CONTINUUM OF RELATIVE INTEREST; IDENTIFYING THREATS AND RELEVANT INFLUENCES: THE CONTINUUM OF RELATIVE INTEREST; URBAN ADVERSARY AND RELEVANT INFLUENCES EVALUATION

URBAN ADVERSARY AND RELEVANT INFLUENCES EVALUATION

Sommario/riassunto

Urban operations are highly complex because of the multitudes of people and structures as well as the density of the city?s infrastructure.  These same features complicate the intelligence and decisionmaking processes associated with military operations at the strategic,



operational, and tactical levels of war.  Intelligence preparation of the battlefield (IPB), the Army?s longstanding methodology for incorporating and analyzing relevant information for all types of operations, is currently not effective for tackling the operational and intelligence challenges of urban operations.