Financial history studies facts and institutions of the past. Such facts and institutions are interesting subjects in … themselves, or they can help us interpret the present through analogy. History & Finance reverses the role of history in finance … long-run persistence of economic and social phenomena. I first define the History & Finance approach and its relationship …

Chapter 1. Different Forms of Microcredit and Social Business - Microfinance in Global History from the Late Medieval … modern era. The book fills a gap in financial history by exploring lesser-known, informal forms of credit granted to the … social history. Paola Avallone is Director of Research at the Italian National Research Council, Institute of History on the …