A History of Interest Rates

by Sidney Homer and Professor Sidney Homer

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471732834
• ISBN13: 9780471732839
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 736 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.1" x 6.4" x 9.1"