Casualties of Credit. The English financial revolution, 1620-1720
Details:
- Author(s) Wennerlind, Carl
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2011
- Pages 348pp
- Publisher Harvard University Press
- Place Published Cambridge MA
Topics:
- Name Capital and money markets, etc
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
- Visit British Library's website
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Notes:
Deals with the financial revolution over an extended period, 1620-1720, and the creation of a modern credit-based financial system dependent on 'trust, public opinion and ultimately violence', focusing on the 'precariousness of credit and the role of violence-war, enslavement, and executions in the safeguarding of trust'. Chapters include: Part 1] 'Alchemy and credit' - 'The scarcity of money problem and the birth of English political economy' / 'The alchemical foundations of credit'; Part 2] 'Death penalty and credit' - 'The epistemology of credit' / 'Capital punishment in defence of credit'; Part 3] 'Slavery and credit' - 'Public credit and the public sphere' / 'South Sea Co and the restoration of public credit'