| Title: | Banking and economic development : some lessons of history |
| Authors: | Rondo E. Cameron, Author |
| Publisher: | New York : Oxford University Press, 1972 |
| ISBN (or other code): | 978-0-19-501428-0 |
| Size: | ix, 267 p. / 24 cm |
| Languages: | English |
| Descriptors: |
[Eurovoc] ECONOMICS > economic conditions > economic development [Eurovoc] FINANCE > financial institutions and credit > banking > banking system [Eurovoc] FINANCE > financial institutions and credit > financial institution [Eurovoc] FINANCE > financial institutions and credit > financial institution > bank [Eurovoc] GEOGRAPHY > America > North America > United States [Eurovoc] GEOGRAPHY > Asia and Oceania > Far East > Japan [Eurovoc] GEOGRAPHY > Europe > Central and Eastern Europe > Serbia [Eurovoc] GEOGRAPHY > Europe > Southern Europe > Italy [Eurovoc] GEOGRAPHY > Europe > Southern Europe > Spain [Eurovoc] GEOGRAPHY > Europe > Western Europe > Austria [Eurovoc] INDUSTRY > industrial structures and policy > industrial policy > industrialisation |
| Tags: | economic history ; histoire economique |
| Abstract: |
This volume is a sequel to Professor Cameron’s Banking in the early stages of industrialisation. The early work deal with countries that managed to achieve significant industrial progress. This book examines the role of the banking system in four European countries which notably failed to industrialize in the 19th century, or did so only slowly or incompletely –Austria, Italy, Spain and Serbia. In addition, it contains a critical re-examination of the role of financial institutions in the rapid industrialization of Japan, and two chapters on banking in the United States. One of the latter studies, that of antebellum Louisiana, considers a case of successful economic development without industrialization; the other demonstrates how the Nation Banking system, an emergency creation of the Civil War period, contributed both to rapid industrialization in the northeast United State and the regional imbalances in development.
In his introduction, Professor Cameron points out that bank behaviour, and thus the contribution of the banking system to economic development – whether positive, negative or neutral – is strongly conditioned by the structure of the banking system; and that this, in turn, is shaped primarily by legislation and other government policies. |
| Contents note: |
Austria / Richard L. Rudolph --
Italy / Jon S. Cohen -- Spain / Gabriel Tortella -- Serbia / John R. Lampe -- Japan / Kozp Yamamura -- Louisiana / George D. Green -- The United States / Richard Sylla. |
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| Barcode | Call number | Media type | Location | Section | Status |
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| 006132 | B 246 | Livre | Centre de documentation du CERDI / Ecole d'Economie | Salle de lecture | Available |
