Premodern Financial Systems: A Historical Comparative Study

Raymond W. Goldsmith

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511895630

Premodern Financial Systems: A Historical Comparative sStudy describes (in quantitative terms whenever possible) the financial superstructure, such as the method of financing the government, and links it to the essential characteristics of the infrastructure of nearly a dozen societies ranging from Athens in the late fifth century BC to the United Provinces in the mid-seventeenth century. The main features of the financial superstructures discussed are the monetary system, the types of financial instruments and institutions, interest rates, and the methods of financing agriculture, non-agricultural business, households, foreign trade, and government. Aspects of the infrastructures covered include population, urbanization, prices, national output, wealth, and their sectoral and size distribution.

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Frontmatter
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1 - Introduction
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2 - The financial systems of the ancient Near East
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3 - The financial system of Periclean Athens
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4 - The financial system of Augustan Rome
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5 - The financial system of the early Abbasid caliphate
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6 - The financial system of the Ottoman Empire at the death of Suleiman I
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7 - The financial system of Mughal India at the death of Akbar
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8 - The financial system of early Tokugawa Japan
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9 - The financial system of Medici Florence
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10 - The financial system of Elizabethan England
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11 - The financial system of the United Provinces at the Peace of Münster
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12 - Similarities and differences
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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-viii

List of tables
pp ix-x

Preface
pp xi-xii

1 - Introduction
pp 1-9

2 - The financial systems of the ancient Near East
pp 10-15

3 - The financial system of Periclean Athens
pp 16-33

4 - The financial system of Augustan Rome
pp 34-59

5 - The financial system of the early Abbasid caliphate
pp 60-79

6 - The financial system of the Ottoman Empire at the death of Suleiman I
pp 80-93

7 - The financial system of Mughal India at the death of Akbar
pp 94-122

8 - The financial system of early Tokugawa Japan
pp 123-144

9 - The financial system of Medici Florence
pp 145-170

10 - The financial system of Elizabethan England
pp 171-197

11 - The financial system of the United Provinces at the Peace of Münster
pp 198-228

12 - Similarities and differences
pp 229-252

Notes
pp 253-306

Bibliography
pp 307-334

Index
pp 335-348

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