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This 2001 study examines the impact of British capital flows on the evolution of capital markets in four countries - Argentina, Australia, Canada, and the United States - over the years 1870 to 1914. In substantive chapters on each country it offers parallel histories of the evolution of their financial infrastructures - commercial banks, non-bank intermediaries, primary security markets, formal secondary security markets, and the institutions that provide the international financial links connecting the frontier country with the British capital market. At one level, the work constitutes a quantitative history of the development of the capital markets of five countries in the late nineteenth century. At a second level, it provides the basis for a useable taxonomy for the study of institutional invention and innovation. At a third, it suggests some lessons from the past about modern policy issues.
Capital movements. --- Capital movements--History. --- Investments, British. --- Investments, British --- Capital movements --- Investment & Speculation --- Finance --- Business & Economics --- History --- Business, Economy and Management --- Economics --- History. --- Capital flight --- Capital flows --- Capital inflow --- Capital outflow --- Flight of capital --- Flow of capital --- Movements of capital --- British investments --- Balance of payments --- Foreign exchange --- International finance --- Investments [British ] --- GB / United Kingdom - Verenigd Koninkrijk - Royaume Uni --- AR / Argentina - Argentinië - Argentine --- US / United States of America - USA - Verenigde Staten - Etats Unis --- CA / Canada --- AU / Australia - Australië - Australie --- AA / International- internationaal --- 331.160 --- Financiële geschiedenis: algemeenheden
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This volume includes ten essays dealing with financial and other forms of economic intermediation in Europe, Canada, and the United States since the seventeenth century. Each relates the development of institutions to economic change and describes their evolution over time, as well as discussing several different forms of intermediation, and deals with significant economic and historical issues.
Financial institutions --- Economic development --- 331.04 --- 333.50 --- 338.8 --- AA / International- internationaal --- Langdurige bewegingen --- Financiële instellingen: algemeenheden --- Economische groei --- Business, Economy and Management --- Economics
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A number of major blockades, including the Continental System in the Napoleonic Wars, the War of 1812, the American Civil War, and World Wars I and II, in addition to the increased use of peacetime blockades and sanctions with the hope of avoiding war, are examined in this book. The impact of technology and organizational changes on the nature of blockades and their effectiveness as military measures are discussed. Legal, economic, and political questions are explored to understand the various constraints upon belligerent behavior. The analysis draw upon the extensive amount of quantitative material available from military publications.
Arts and Humanities --- History --- Blockade --- Naval strategy. --- Sea-power. --- Economic sanctions. --- Naval history, Modern. --- History. --- Economic aspects. --- Naval art and science --- Strategy --- Sea-power --- Blockade running --- War --- Embargo --- Neutral trade with belligerents --- Modern naval history --- Economic sanctions --- Sanctions, Economic --- Economic policy --- Sanctions (International law) --- International economic relations --- Dominion of the sea --- Military power --- Naval policy --- Navy --- Sea, Dominion of the --- Seapower --- Military readiness --- Naval history --- Naval strategy --- Navies --- Law and legislation
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History of North America --- Economics --- United States --- Economic conditions --- United States of America
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In Pursuit of Leviathan traces the American whaling industry from its rise in the 1840's to its precipitous fall at the end of the nineteenth century. Using detailed and comprehensive data that describe more than four thousand whaling voyages from New Bedford, Massachusetts, the leading nineteenth-century whaling port, the authors explore the market for whale products, crew quality and labor contracts, and whale biology and distribution, and assess the productivity of the American fleet. They then examine new whaling techniques developed at the end of the nineteenth century, such as modified clippers and harpoons, and the introduction of darting guns. Despite the common belief that the whaling industry declined due to a fall in whale stocks, the authors argue that the industry's collapse was related to changes in technology and market conditions. Providing a wealth of historical information, In Pursuit of Leviathan is a classic industry study that will provide intriguing reading for anyone interested in the history of whaling.
Whaling --- Economic aspects --- History --- Commercial whaling --- Hunting, Whale --- Whale fisheries --- Whale hunting --- Fisheries --- E-books --- whaling, history, economics, voyages, new bedford, massachusetts, ports, labor, products, commerce, innovation, whale biology, productivity, technology, clippers, harpoons, darting guns, nonfiction, profits, blubber, ambergris, market forces, crew, sailors, fleet, 19th century, antebellum, eastern seaboard, natural resources, capital.
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