International Government Finance and the Amsterdam Capital Market 1740-1815

by James Riley

Book Overview

During the eighteenth century European governments began systematically using an international credit structure whose centre was the Amsterdam capital market. This book reconstructs that system and surveys its principal effects on the European and especially the Dutch economies. Eighteenth-century states borrowed chiefly to finance wars and, increasingly toward the century's end, debts from earlier wars. Military and naval spending and debt service...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521101107
• ISBN13: 9780521101103
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"