Decision Taking, Confidence and Risk Management in Banks from Early Modernity to the 20th Century

This book offers 14 contributions that examine key questions in bank decision-taking, constitution of confidence in banks and risk management practices from Early Modernity to the twentieth century. It explores how the various mechanisms of bank decision taking changed over time. Chapters also analyse the types of risk management techniques used, the contributory factors to the constitution of confidence and the methods that banking historians can...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319420755
• ISBN13: 9783319420752
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 8.7"