Author: A.N. Porter
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-11-05
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 1136611355
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Author: Scott B. MacDonald
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-12
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 1351535331
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The end of the Cold War put the planet on a new track, abruptly replacing the familiar world of bipolarity, red phones, and intercontinental ballistic missiles with the strange new world of the Internet, e-commerce, and Palm Pilots. The "New World Order" was defined by a U.S.-led war against Iraq, bloody ethnic strife in Bosnia and Rwanda, and religious turmoil in Central Asia. This evolving global system, however, overlooked the powerful role of credit, which functions as a critical building block for developing greater national and individual wealth. This volume examines the evolution of credit in the Western world and its relationship to power. Spanning several centuries of human endeavor. it focuses on Western Europe and the United States and also considers how the Western system became the global credit system. Six major themes run throughout: (1) the direct relationship between credit and power; (2) different kinds of political power promote different kinds of economic behavior; (3) various societal and cultural groups were often more successful in mingling credit and political power; (4) the Western credit system evolved in tandem with the development of the nation-state; (5) historically, there has been a pattern of financial crises; (6) credit spread from being the privilege of the wealthy and powerful to being available to vast numbers. MacDonald and Gastmann have broken history into five periods, ranging from early pre-modern, defining the earliest references to banking and credit as exemplified by the Code of Hammurabi, circa 1726 BC, through the Roman Empire with its creation of money and growing use of credit in trade, the barbarian invasions of the 11th century which led to a breakdown in credit networks in the West, through the establishment of the Italian city-states, to the modern period which incorporates the rise of credit in the Low Countries in the 1500s and extends through the rise of London and New York as the major international credit hubs.
Author: Susan George
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-03-13
Total Pages: 323
ISBN-13: 0429710933
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The authors compare the ideologies of the free-market with religious faith, giving the World Bank the role of a secular church setting out to convert the world's underdeveloped economies to the consumer capitalist way, and so to create an enormous secular empire. This book is published in September 1994 to coincide with the World Bank's 50th annive
Author: Solomon Lacy
Publisher:
Published: 2021-09-15
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →What is Leverage Over Everything? This book is the blueprint on how to fix your personal credit, build your business credit, and use the power of leverage so you can be in a better position for your financial future. In this book, you'll learn how to duplicate my success and leverage OPM (Other Peoples Money) into profitable business investments. By using the methods modeled by certified credit repair specialists and credit attorneys, you can succeed in repairing your own credit. With a high FICO score, you will qualify for the best financing and be approved for high-limit credit cards. Don't be a victim of erroneous credit reporting or mistakes of the past. Take control of your life by exercising your legal right to clean up your credit and restore your good name! Leverage Over Everything will help you achieve financial goals that previously were not possible because of credit barriers and/or lending restrictions!
Author: Ben Sunbury
Publisher:
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780608068473
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This study reveals the internal decision-making process of ATandT and explains the private and public interests combined to shape corporate and public policy in late-twentieth-century America. Temin weaves the strands of politics, economics, business, and law into an accessible narrative history. Describes how American farmers built, gained ownership, and took control of the nation's largest agricultural credit resource (providing one-third of the nation's agricultural finance in June 1983), and then lost it, having to turn to the US government to help bail them out. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: John Weisweiler
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2022
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 0197647170
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In his Debt: The First 5000 Years, the anthropologist David Graeber put forward a new grand narrative of world history. From the Late Bronze Age onwards, all across the Near East and Mediterranean, relationships of mutual obligation were transformed into quantifiable and legally enforceable debts. Graeber suggests that this transformation made possible new economic institutions, such as IOUs, coinage, and chattel slavery. It also led to the emergence of modes of thought that have shaped Eurasian philosophical and religious traditions ever since. Debt in the Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East explores the implications of this theory for the history of the Mediterranean and Near East. A distinguished group of ancient historians assesses how well Graeber's interpretations fit current understandings of ancient and late antique economies. At the same time, this volume offers a history of premodern credit systems which takes seriously the dual nature of debt as both quantifiable economic reality and immeasurable social obligation. By exploring the diverse ways in which social relationships were quantified in different ancient and late antique societies, the work introduces a method of writing the history of premodern systems of exchange that departs from the currently dominant paradigm of neo-institutional economics.
Author: Roberta A Dayer
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1988-11-24
Total Pages: 467
ISBN-13: 1349195928
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Peter James Hudson
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2017-04-27
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 022645925X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From the end of the nineteenth century until the onset of the Great Depression, Wall Street embarked on a stunning, unprecedented, and often bloody period of international expansion in the Caribbean. A host of financial entities sought to control banking, trade, and finance in the region. In the process, they not only trampled local sovereignty, grappled with domestic banking regulation, and backed US imperialism—but they also set the model for bad behavior by banks, visible still today. In Bankers and Empire, Peter James Hudson tells the provocative story of this period, taking a close look at both the institutions and individuals who defined this era of American capitalism in the West Indies. Whether in Wall Street minstrel shows or in dubious practices across the Caribbean, the behavior of the banks was deeply conditioned by bankers’ racial views and prejudices. Drawing deeply on a broad range of sources, Hudson reveals that the banks’ experimental practices and projects in the Caribbean often led to embarrassing failure, and, eventually, literal erasure from the archives.