Priceless Markets: The Political Economy of Credit in Paris, 1660-1870

by Philip T. Hoffman, Gilles Postel-Vinay, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal

This pathbreaking book shows how credit markets functioned in Paris, through the agency of notaries, during a critical period of French history. Its authors challenge the usual assumption that organized financial markets--and hence the opportunity for economic growth--did not emerge outside of England and the Netherlands until the nineteenth century. Drawing on innovative research, the authors show that as early as the Old Regime, financial intermediaries...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226348016
• ISBN13: 9780226348018
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"