Prometheus Shackled. Goldsmith banks and England's financial revolution after 1700

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Author(s) Temin, Peter, & Hans-Joachim Voth
Publication type Monograph
Year published 2012
Pages 214pp; illus
Publisher Oxford University Press
Place Published Oxford

Topics:

Name Capital and money markets, etc
Name Finance of production & trade

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Library:

Name British Library
City London
County Greater London
Country England
Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:

This book 'is not an exercise in banking history' but considers banks in a wider context - their development, growth, crises and role in economy after 1700, etc. In particular seeks to explore why banks did not participate in the development of new industries where large profits were to be made - 'That is the question that this book asks'. Based especially on the archives and experience of C Hoare & Co but also Child & Co, Duncombe & Hunt [Sir Charles Duncombe], Freame & Gould and Goslings [Goslings & Sharpe]