Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Sweden, an economy in transformation, 1820-1910 -- Chapter 3: Savings banks in the Swedish banking system -- Chapter 4: Savers and the risk of deposit banking -- Chapter 5: Credit risks – from networks and co-operation to stable markets -- Chapter 6: Trust...

Introduction -- Compounding financialization, critical pluralist political economy, and historical-institutional balance-sheet analysis -- Political economy and the financialization of American banking -- The centralization and financialization of American monetary authority -- Shadow banking,...

From Crisis to Crisis examines the impact of the harsh conditions of the interwar economy on the British merchant banks. The financial crises of 1914 and 1931 are assessed using primary sources. The competitive threats, including the rise of New York as a rival financial centre, are considered....

The money supply in historical perspective -- Beyond monetary policy -- The development of a specie standard -- The U.S. banks and antebellum panics -- Greenbacks, gold, and silver purchases -- The national banking system -- Reform proposals and legislation -- The early Federal Reserve -- The...

"The financial collapse of 2007-8 has questioned our assumptions about the underlying basis for stability in the financial system, and Anthony Hotson here offers an important reassessment of the development of London's money and credit markets since the great currency crisis of 1695. He shows...