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"This book traces the origins of a financial institution, the modern corporation, in Genoa and reconstructs its diffusion in England, the Netherlands, and France. At its inception, the Casa di San Giorgio (1407-1805) was entrusted with managing the public debt in Genoa. Over time, it took on powers we now ascribe to banks and states, accruing financial characteristics and fiscal, political, and territorial powers. As one of the earliest central banks, it ruled territories and local populations for almost a century. It controlled strategic Genoese possessions near and far, including the island of Corsica, the city of Famagusta (in Cyprus), and trading posts in Crimea, the Black Sea, the Lunigiana in northern Tuscany, and various towns in Liguria. In the early sixteenth century, in his Florentine Histories (Book VIII, Chapter 29), Niccolò Machiavelli was the first to analyze the relationship between the Casa di San Giorgio's financial and territorial powers, declaring its possession of territories as the basis of its ascendancy. Later, the founders of some of the earliest corporations, including the Dutch East India Company (1602), the Bank of England (1694), and John Law's Mississippi Company (1720) in France, referenced the model of the Casa di San Giorgio"--

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"Cet ouvrage présente, dans une perspective comparatiste et sur la longue durée, les moyens de mobilisation des ressources publiques des Etats médiévaux et modernes, dont les besoins de fonds sont accrus par les guerres. Couvrant six siècles de l'histoire de l'Europe occidentale, les contributions étudient les transformations des méthodes de financement (émission monétaire, fiscalité, emprunt public à court ou long terme, forcé ou volontaire, vente d'offices) et les institutions, les acteurs, les marchés primaire et secondaire des titres de dette. Elles interrogent les modèles d'organisation politique et leurs interactions avec le drainage efficace de l'argent, la construction d'une information statistique, financière et fiscale et ses conséquences sur la prise de décision des gouvernants. Elles invitent à examiner l'impact des innovations financières, les différents modes d'anticipation des ressources et les effets macroéconomiques des mécanismes de mobilisation de la richesse privée. Elles explorent l'influence de déterminants tels que les dimensions spatiales des Etats, les régimes politiques, l'inégale distribution des richesses, l'utilisation du privilège, les différents degrés de risque imposés aux prêteurs, pour expliquer comment et pourquoi un mode de financement l'emporte ici et non ailleurs.--Page 4 of cover.

Finance, Public --- Finances publiques --- Economic policy. --- Finance, Public. --- Politics and government. --- History --- Histoire --- Europe --- Europe. --- Economic policy --- Politics and government --- Politique économique --- Politique et gouvernement --- Cameralistics --- Public finance --- Public finances --- Currency question --- Economic nationalism --- Economic planning --- National planning --- State planning --- Economics --- Planning --- National security --- Social policy --- Political aspects --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- tax policy --- public debt --- public finances