Government Debts and Financial Markets in Europe

Studying the history of public debt represents a fascinating means to investigate the role of public finances in the making of European states both at a national and regional level. Government Debts and Financial Markets brings together essays by leading historians of economic and financial history. It illuminates the relationships between government indebtedness and the development of financial markets in Europe from the late Middle Ages to the late twentieth century.

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Government Debts and Financial Markets in Europe

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

CONTENTS
pp v-vi

Contributors
pp vii-viii

List of Charts and Tables
pp ix-x

Introduction
pp 1-4

1 - The Financial Administration of North Hanseatic Cities in the Late Middle Ages: Development, Organization and Politics
pp 5-16

2 - Government Debts and Credit Markets in Renaissance Italy
pp 17-32

3 - Government Debts and Financial Markets in Castile between the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
pp 33-44

4 - Government Debt and Financial Markets: Exploring Pro-Cycle Effects in Northern Italy during the Sixteenth and the Seventeenth Centuries
pp 45-66

5 - Government Policies and the Development of Financial Markets: The Case of Madrid in the Seventeenth Century
pp 67-80

6 - The Role Played by Short-Term Credit in the Spanish Monarchy's Finances
pp 81-96

7 - From Subordination to Autonomy: Public Debt Policies and the Creation of a Self-Ruled Financial Market in the Kingdom of Naples in the Long Run (1500–1800)
pp 97-104

8 - Public Debt in the Papal States: Financial Market and Government Strategies in the Long Run (Seventeenth–Nineteenth Centuries)
pp 105-120

9 - Towards a New Public Credit Policy in Eighteenth-Century Spain: the Introduction of the Tesorería Mayor de Guerra (1703–6)
pp 121-134

10 - French Public Finance between 1683 and 1726
pp 135-166

11 - Long-Term War Loans and Market Expectations in England, 1743–50
pp 167-178

12 - Mercantilist Institutions for the Pursuit of Power with Profit: The Management of Britain's National Debt, 1756–1815
pp 179-208

13 - Italian Government Debt Sustainability in the Long Run, 1861–2000
pp 209-224

14 - Times of Wasteful Abundance: The Apogee of the Fiscal State in the Federal Republic of Germany from the 1960s to the 1980s
pp 225-230

Conclusion: Final Remarks
pp 231-238

Notes
pp 239-294

Bibliography
pp 295-330

Index
pp 331-338

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