1. Gerald D. Feldman : an appreciation / Jeffrey Fear -- 2. Starting from scratch? The beginnings of Banca Commerciale Italiana : 1893-1894 / Peter Hertner -- 3. Jewish financiers in the city of London : reality and rhetoric, 1830-1914 / Randal Michie -- 4. The financial culture of the Habsburg...

Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on contributors -- Gerald D. Feldman : an appreciation / Jeffrey Fear, Glasgow University -- Starting from scratch? : the beginnings of Banca Commerciale Italiana 1893-1894 / Peter Hertner, Marthin Luther University Halle Wittenberg -- Jewish financiers in...

pt. 1. Introduction -- pt. 2. Digitalizing commercial banks -- pt. 3. Digitalizing state, mutual, and savings banks -- pt. 4. Socio-historical aspects of digitalization -- pt. 5. Wrapping up and grand conclusion.

List of figures, List of tables, -- Preface, Table of abbreviations. 1. Evolution of monetary arrangements 2. New monetary economics and commodity bundles:a critique of the Black-Fama-Hall system. 3. A measure of value independent of commodities: developing new monetary economics using the...

Frontmatter -- Inhalt -- Nicaragua-Karte -- Zentralamerika-Karte -- Die Grenzen des American Dream Als „Gelddoktor" in Nicaragua, 1930-1934 -- Von der Wall Street zur „Nationalbank" Nicaraguas -- Geschäftsbereich und Bekanntenkreis -- Reise nach Costa Rica, Gesellschaftsleben in Managua --...

Born out of crisis a century ago, the Federal Reserve has become the most powerful macroeconomic policymaker and financial regulator in the world. The Myth of Independence traces the Fed’s transformation from a weak, secretive, and decentralized institution in 1913 to a remarkably transparent...

Main description: Commercial banks are among the oldest and most familiar financial institutions. When they work well, we hardly notice; when they do not, we rail against them. What are the historical forces that have shaped the modern banking system? In Unsettled Account, Richard Grossman takes...