"Alors que les innovations financières, les subprimes et l'économie de casino sont brandies par la classe politique comme les seuls éléments caractéristiques à l'origine d'une crise du capitalisme en ce début du XXIe siècle, cet ouvrage s'interroge sur l'existence de changements d'une...

1: The statute staple and trade finance in later medieval England -- 2: Merchants and trade -- 3: Boom and bust: Patterns of borrowing in later medieval England -- 4: The geography of recession: provincial credit in later medieval England -- 5: London: the commercial powerhouse -- 6: Conclusion

This book challenges the notion that economic crises are modern phenomena through its exploration of the tumultuous ‘credit-crunch’ of the later Middle Ages. It illustrates clearly how influences such as the Black Death, inter-European warfare, climate change and a bullion famine occasioned...

Finance in the Middle Ages and the Scholastic tradition -- Credit and faith in medieval Iberia : the road not taken -- Early European finance 1050-1650 -- Transcending feudal finance in Western Europe -- Mercantile credit and the Atlantic slave trade -- Chayanov, Marx, and hidden interests in...