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- Product code: 20818
- ISBN: 0471732834,
ISBN13: 9780471732839,
704 pages, hardback
Published by John Wiley & Sons, 4th edition, 2005
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Description of A History of Interest Rates |
A History of Interest Rates presents a very readable account of interest rate trends and lending practices over four millennia of economic history. Despite the paucity of data prior to the Industrial Revolution, authors Homer and Sylla provide a highly detailed analysis of money markets and borrowing practices in major economies.
Underlying the analysis is their assertion that "the free market long-term rates of interest for any industrial nation, properly charted, provide a sort of fever chart of the economic and political health of that nation." Given the enormous volatility of rates in the 20th century, this implies we're living in age of political and economic excesses that are reflected in massive interest rate swings.
Gain more insight into this assertion by ordering a copy of this book today.
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Contents of A History of Interest Rates |
Foreword by Dr. Henry Kaufman
Preface to the Fourth Edition
Summary Tables
Summary Charts
Introduction
Part One: Ancient Times
1. Prehistoric and Primitive Credit and Interest
2. Mesopotamia: Sumer, Babylonia, and Assyria
3. Greece
4. Rome
5. A Summary and Analysis of Ancient Interest Rates
Part Two: Medieval and Renaissance Europe.
6. Usury Doctrines and Their Effect on European Credit Forms and Interest
7. The Dark Ages
8. Late Medieval Times
9. The Renaissance
10. A Summary and Analysis of Medieval and Renaissance Interest Rates in Western Europe
Part Three: Modern Europe and North America to 1900
11. England in the Eighteenth Century
12. Europe in the Eighteenth Century
13. England in the Nineteenth Century
14. France in the Nineteenth Century
15. Other European Countries in the Nineteenth Century
16. The United States in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Part Four: Europe and North America Since 1900
17. The United States in the Twentieth Century: 1900-1945
18. The United States in the Twentieth Century: 1946-1990
19. England in the Twentieth Century
20. Europe in the Twentieth Century: France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Italy
21. Europe in the Twentieth Century: Switzerland, Austria, Scandinavia, Ireland, Iberia, and Turkey
22. Canada in the Twentieth Century
23. Summary and Analysis of Interest Rates in Europe and North America Since 1700
Part Five: Other Countries and the 1990's.
24. Japan
25. The Old Sterling Area: Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, and Pakistan
26. Russia
27. China
28. Latin America
29. Turn of the Millennium: 1990-2005
Notes
Index
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About Sidney Homer and Richard Sylla |
SIDNEY HOMER, who died in 1983, was a limited partner in Salomon Brothers and was the general partner in charge of the firm's bond market research department. He is best known for his pioneering and analytical works of bond market history and the economic forces that drive bond market trends.
RICHARD SYLLA is Henry Kaufman Professor of the History of Financial Institutions and Markets and a Professor of Economics, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation at NYU's Stern School of Business. He is a past president of the Economic History Association and is a trustee of the Museum of American Financial History.
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