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Hardcover Prometheus Shackled: Goldsmith Banks and England's Financial Revolution After 1700 Book

ISBN: 019994427X

ISBN13: 9780199944279

Prometheus Shackled: Goldsmith Banks and England's Financial Revolution After 1700

After 1688, Britain underwent a revolution in public finance, and the cost of borrowing declined sharply. Leading scholars have argued that easier credit for the government, made possible by better property-rights protection, lead to a rapid expansion of private credit. The Industrial Revolution, according to this view, is the result of the preceding revolution in public finance.
In Prometheus Shackled, prominent economic historians Peter Temin...

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