1. Changing strategies and global power in the long eighteenth century -- 2. Eighteenth-century realities and historiographical approaches -- 3. Administering the fiscal-military state : ordinary revenues : trusting in a consumers world -- 4. Increasing revenue through administration change :...

1. Introduction -- 2. Origin and purposes of the Second Bank -- 3. The Second Bank's branch network and the state banking system -- 4. The Second Bank and the "exchanges" : conquering space -- 5. The "production" of monetary stability -- 6. The Second Bank's specie market operations -- 7....

1. Introduction -- 2. The Anglo-American assessments in a wider context -- 3. The Soviet Union and the West : the pre-war experience and international great power politics before World War II -- 4. From the guarantee to Poland to the Molotov-Ribbentropp pact -- 5. US pre-Barbarossa assessments...

The development of capital markets in medieval Europe was shaped for centuries by the religious ban on lending money at interest. This paper examines how this prohibition developed as the outcome of strategic behavior by religious, commercial and political elites. A model is developed to analyze...

Introduction -- The stock market in early modern England -- Politics, warfare and finance -- Financial innovation and trade -- The bubble and the crash -- Reasons to invest in the South Sea Company -- Criticism and financial complexity -- The social history of the crash -- The real effects of...