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European Investment in Greece in the Nineteenth Century
Banking historiography often does not sufficiently take into account bankers’ deliberations of their decision making, but rather limits investigation to considerations of profit maximisation. This book shows that the decision-making processes of nineteenth-century bankers contemplating high-risk financial markets like Greece are just as complex as present-day investment decisions. The book, now published in English after a first German edition, offers in-depth studies of decision making in concrete historical situations, considering political and economic circumstances and also the individual background of the actors concerned, including a reflection on the influence of cultural movements ...
Emporialism
This book examines what Amr Kamal calls the phenomenon of emporialism, or the convergence between the spaces and imaginaries of empires and emporia in the context of a modern Mediterranean divided among the British, French, and Ottoman empires. By "emporia," Kamal refers to the commercial network of nineteenth-century department stores, which gained prominence after the Suez Canal project. Taking as a focal point French and Egyptian department stores, the author examines emporialism as a set of phenomenological experiences, discursive and social praxes, and mechanisms of control and resistance, born from the intersection of modernity, colonialism, and mass consumption. Drawing on archival evidence, Kamal reads iconographic and literary representations of emporia in English, French, Arabic, and Hebrew, from the nineteenth century to the present, addressing works by Émile Zola, Huda Shaarawi, Jacqueline Kahanoff, and others. Emporialism, Kamal argues, served to rewrite the history of the Mediterranean, to reinvent national belonging, and to interrogate issues of modernity and social justice.
The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century Women Philosophers in the German Tradition
This Oxford Handbook celebrates the work of trailblazing women in the history of modern philosophy. Through thirty-one original chapters, it engages with the work of women philosophers spanning the long nineteenth century in the German tradition, and covers women's contribution to major philosophical movements, including romanticism and idealism, socialism, and Marxism, Nietzscheanism, feminism, phenomenology, and neo-Kantianism. It opens with a section on figures, offering essays focused on fifteen thinkers in this tradition, before moving on to sections of essays on movement and topics. Across the volume's chapters, essays examine women's contributions to key philosophical areas such as epistemology and metaphysics, aesthetics, ethics, social and political philosophy, ecology, education, and the philosophy of nature.
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 use to analyse and describe bankers ́ risk management and decision taking - from system theory to behavioural finance, new institutional economics to praxeology and convention theory to network analysis. The different methodological approaches are put to the test in case studies based on archive material from four hundred years of banking in order to connect banking history more closely to political and cultural history.
The Economies of Urban Diversity
The Economics of Urban Diversity explores ethnic and religious minorities in urban economies. In this exciting work, the contributors develop an integrative approach to urban diversity and economy by employing concepts from different studies and linking historical and contemporary analyses of economic, societal, demographic, and cultural development. Contributors from a variety of disciplines geography, economics, history, sociology, anthropology, and planning make for a transdisciplinary analysis of past and present migration-related economic and social issues, which helps to better understand the situation of ethnic and religious minorities in metropolitan areas today.
Histories of Tax Evasion, Avoidance and Resistance
Tax evasion, tax avoidance and tax resistance are widespread phenomena in political, economic, social and fiscal history from antiquity through medieval, early modern and modern times. Histories of Tax Evasion, Avoidance and Resistance shows how different groups and individuals around the globe have succeeded or failed in not paying their due taxes, whether in kind or in cash, on their properties or on their crops. It analyses how, throughout history, wealthy and poor taxpayers have tried to avoid or reduce their tax burden by negotiating with tax authorities, through practices of legal or illegal tax evasion, by filing lawsuits, seeking armed resistance or by migration, and how state author...
A Debt Restructuring Mechanism for Sovereigns
The Eurozone crisis which started in spring 2010 as a Greek budget crisis has alerted Europeans that the issue of defaulting sovereigns is not one reserved just for the poor and poorest countries on this globe. The crisis painfully amplified that developed countries, too, might be hit by this phenomenon. To be sure, this insight is far from novel - the history of defaulting states reaches back into history for at least two millennia. And yet, lawyers have surprisingly abstained more or less completely from discussing this subject and developing possible solutions. Beginning with the Argentina crisis in 2001, this neglect began to vanish to a certain degree and this movement got some momentum in 2010 by the Eurozone crisis. The present book collects contributions from authors most of whom have participated in a conference on this issue in January 2012 at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. The presentations, thus, provide a unique overview of the present discussion both from an economic and legal perspective.
Finanziers in Sehnsuchtsräumen
Wie treffen Bankiers ihre Entscheidungen? Wie identifizieren und managen sie Risiken? Wie funktioniert der Aufbau von Vertrauen im Bankgewerbe? Die Studie untersucht diese Fragen am Fallbeispiel Griechenlands und zeichnet die Integration dieses peripheren Finanzmarktes in den europäischen zwischen 1820 und 1914 nach. Ausgehend von methodischen Anregungen der Behavioural Finance analysiert sie in neun Fallbeispielen (u.a. Auslandsanleihen, die Gründung der Nationalbank, die Trockenlegung von Sumpfgebieten, der Kanal von Korinth, die internationale Finanzkommission, der Handel) die Risikoperzeption und das Investitionsverhalten britischer, französischer, deutscher und schweizerischer Bankie...
War and the State in Early Modern Europe
The 16th and 17th centuries saw many ambitious European rulers develop permanent armies and navies. Jan Glete examines this military change as a central part of the political, social and economic transformation of early modern Europe.
Wissen und Visionen
Der symbolistische Dichter Stefan George sammelte nach der Jahrhundertwende einen Kreis von Dichtern und Intellektuellen um sich, mit denen er arbeitete und lebte, und die er in ihrer wissenschaftlichen Tätigkeit unterstützte. Es überrascht zunächst, dass neben Literaturwissenschaftlern wie Friedrich Gundolf und Historikern wie Ernst Kantorowicz auch einige Wirtschaftswissenschaftler zu diesem "Staat" gehörten. Denn George, der alle Lebensbereiche dem der Kunst untergeordnet sehen wollte, stand dem modernen Kapitalismus sehr kritisch gegenüber und interessierte sich nicht für ökonomische Fragen. Warum übte der Dichter auf die Ökonomen dennoch eine so große Faszination aus, und wie...
