A Comparative History of Bank Failures: From Medici to Barings

by Sten Jonsson

Starting with Medici and Fugger and ending with Barings and Royal Bank of Scotland under neo-liberal de-regulation, the author gives an account of how a number of banks failed over a 500 year-period. The author offers an explanation of the leading ideas about the world and good society at the time, and summarizes this narrative using Streeck & Schmitter's three bases for regulation of society: Community (spontaneous solidarity), State (hierarchical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367191091
• ISBN13: 9780367191092
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"