Finance, Intermediaries, and Economic Development
By Stanley L. Engerman, Philip T. Hoffman, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, Kenneth L. Sokoloff

Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Number Of Pages:   362
Publication Date:   2003-07-14
ISBN-10 / ASIN:   0521820545
ISBN-13 / EAN:   9780521820547

List of Contributors page vii
Preface ix
Introduction 1
i.financial intermediaries in europe
1.Markets and Institutions in the Rise of London as a Financial
Center in the Seventeenth Century 11
Larry Neal and Stephen Quinn
2.The Paris Bourse,1724–1814:Experiments in Microstructure 34
Eugene N.White
3.No Exit:Notarial Bankruptcies and the Evolution of
Financial Intermediation in Nineteenth Century Paris 75
Philip T.Hoffman,Gilles Postel-Vinay,and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal
ii.financial intermediaries in the americas
4.The Mortgage Market in Upper Canada:Window on a
Pioneer Economy 111
Angela Redish
5.Integration of U.S.Capital Markets:Southern Stock Markets
and the Case of New Orleans,1871–1913 132
John B.Legler and Richard Sylla
6.The Transition from Building and Loan to Savings and Loan,
1890–1940 157
Kenneth A.Snowden
iii.other forms of intermediation
7.Intermediaries in the U.S.Market for Technology,1870–1920 209
Naomi R.Lamoreaux and Kenneth L.Sokoloff
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8.Beyond Chinatown:Overseas Chinese Intermediaries on the
Multiethnic North-American Pacific Coast in the Age of
Financial Capital 247
Dianne Newell
9.Finance and Capital Accumulation in a Planned Economy:
The Agricultural Surplus Hypothesis and Soviet Economic
Development,1928–1939 272
Robert C.Allen
10.Was Adherence to the Gold Standard a“Good Housekeeping
Seal of Approval”during the Interwar Period?288
Michael Bordo,Michael Edelstein,and Hugh Rockoff
Afterword:About Lance Davis 319
Index 337