The decline of British industry, along with monetarism, economic liberalization and the rise of the financial sector are popularly associated with the 1980s and Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government. But British industry had already passed its peak nearly a century before. Unregulated...

Studies of early U.S. growth traditionally have emphasized real-sector explanations for an acceleration that by many accounts became detectable between 1815 and 1840. Interestingly, the establishment of the nation's basic financial structure predated by three decades the canals, railroads, and...

We focus on the economies of the North Atlantic Core during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and find that an impressive variety of local financial institutions emerged to supply the needs of SMEs wherever there was sufficient demand for their services. Although these intermediaries...

Historischer Überblick der Betrachtungsweise des Kapitalmarktes -- Bisherige Erkenntnisse und Modelle zur evolutorischen Finanzökonomie -- Relevanz weiterer biologischer und darwinistischer Konzepte zur Erklärung des Kapitalmarktverhaltens.