Finance, Intermediaries, and Economic Development by Stanley ... - 9780521820547

Finance, Intermediaries, and Economic DevelopmentAuthor(s): Stanley L. Engerman, Philip T. Hoffman, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, Kenneth L. Sokoloff\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521820547, 978-0521820547\nSynopsis\nThis volume includes ten essays dealing with financial and other forms of economic intermediation in Europe, Canada, and the United States since the seventeenth century. Each relates the development of institutions to economic change and describes their evolution over time, as well as discussing several different forms of intermediation, and deals with significant economic and historical issues.