The book analyses the role of private bankers who were pivotal in modernizing the economic and financial system of Italy in the XIX century. To achieve this they needed to interact with the international haute banque to organize and place the public loans and the large investments associated...

What are the grand dynamics that drive the history of economies? The laws of supply & demand, most economists would argue. For the history of European banking, this book offers an alternative explanation: Rather than market forces, the coincidence and coalitions of charismatic ideas and powerful...

Chapter 1. The bankers -- Chapter 2. The Parodi Bankers -- Chapter 3. Banking Institutions -- Chapter 4. Financial intermediation: the Rothschilds and the private bankers in the Kingdom of Sardinia -- Chapter 5. Private bankers in the economic and political system of unified Italy -- Chapter 6....

We investigate the origins and growth of the Financial Stability Mandate (FSM) to examine why bank supervisors, inside and outside of central banks succeeded or failed to meet their FSM. Three issues inform this study: (1) what drives changes in the FSM, (2) whether supervision should be...