Government debts and financial markets in Europe / / edited by Fausto Piola Caselli

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910815957603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, : Pickering & Chatto, 2008
• ISBN: 1-317-31422-0; 1-315-65282-X; 1-317-31423-9; 1-281-12511-3; 9786611125110; 1-85196-558-0
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 338 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Collana: Financial history series ; ; no. 5
• Altri autori (Persone): Piola CaselliFausto
• Disciplina: 336.34094
• Soggetti: Debts, Public - Europe - History; Finance - Europe - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Contributors; List of Charts and Tables; Introduction; 1 The Financial Administration of North Hanseatic Cities in the Late Middle Ages; 2 Government Debts and Credit Markets in Renaissance Italy; 3 Government Debts and Financial Markets in Castile Between the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries; 4 Government Debts and Financial Markets: Exploring Pro-cycle Effects in Northern Italy During the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries; 5 Government Policies and the Development of Financial Markets: The Case of Madrid in the Seventeenth Century; 6 The Role Played by Short-term Credit in the Spanish Monarchy's Finances7 From Subordination to Autonomy: Public Debt Policies and the Creation of a Self-ruled Financial Market in the Kingdom of Naples in the Long Run (1500-1800); 8 Public Debt in the Papal States: Financial Market and Government Strategies in the Long Run (Seventeenth-Ninteenth Centuries); 9 Towards a New Public Credit Policy in Eighteenth-century Spain: The Introduction of the Tesorerla Mayor de Guerra (1703-6); 10 French Public Finance Between 1683 and ; 1726; 11 Long-term War Loans and Market Expectations in England, 1743-5012 Mercantilist Institutions for the Pursuit of Power with Profit: The Management of Britain's National Debt, 1756-1815; 13 Italian Government Debt Sustainability in the Long Run, 1861-2000; 14 Times of Wasteful Abundance: The Apogee of the Fiscal State in the Federal Republic of Germany from the 1960s to the 1980s; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Studying the history of public debt represents a fascinating means to investigate the role of public finances in the making of European states both at a national and regional level. <i>Government Debts and Financial Markets</i> brings together essays by leading historians of economic and financial history. It illuminates the relationships between government indebtedness and the development of financial markets in Europe from the late Middle Ages to the late twentieth century.