The Rise of Financial Capitalism: International Capital Markets in the Age of Reason

by Larry Neal

• ISBN13: 9780521457385
• ISBN10: 0521457386
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-11-26
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Summary

'In bringing capital market operations into new focus, Neal has brought new life to an old debate and has produced a book that deserves to be widely read and discussed.' - William P. Kennedy, The Times Higher Education Supplement

Table of Contents

1. Historical background for the rise of financial capitalism: commercial revolution, rise of nation states, and capital markets

2. The development of an information network and the international capital markets of London and Amsterdam

3. The early capital markets of London and Amsterdam

4. The Banque Royale and the South Sea Company: how the bubbles began

4. Appendix: were the Mississippi and south sea bubbles rational? 5. The Bank of England and the South Sea Company: how the bubbles ended

6. The English and Dutch East India Companies: how the west was won

7. The integration of the English and Dutch capital markets in peace and war

8. The English and Dutch capital markets in panics

9. The capital markets during revolutions, war and peace

10. A tale of two revolutions: international capital flows 1792-1819

11. The London and Amsterdam stock markets, 1800-1825.