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In early modern times, the city of Seville was the most important entrept̥ between the Old and the New World, attracting numerous merchants from all of Europe. They provided the American market with European merchandise, especially with textiles and metalware from Flanders and France. This book investigates the networks of Flemish and French merchants in Seville, displaying overall structures of trade as well as collective strategies of both merchant colonies.
Comment la finance a-t-elle révolutionné le capitalisme ancien ? Pourquoi la quête de forts taux de rentabilité est-elle devenue la loi absolue ? En quoi a-t-elle transformé l’industrie, le commerce ? Quels rôles jouent désormais les consultants, les analystes, les gestionnaires de fonds ? Au nom de quelles logiques de prévision, de management, de contrôle ? Avec quel impact sur la psychologie des marchés, les banques centrales, les grands équilibres nationaux et internationaux ? Quelle leçon, surtout, faut-il retirer de la bulle de la " nouvelle économie ", de son apparition et de son explosion ? Un livre indispensable, clair et lucide, afin de comprendre, par-delà les idéologies, la réalité économique d’aujourd’hui. Professeur à l’université de Paris-Panthéon-Assas, Jean-Paul Betbèze est aussi directeur des Études économiques et financières d’une grande banque française. Il collabore par ailleurs à plusieurs revues et journaux dont Le Monde de l’Économie.
Following a series of crises of exceptional gravity, in 2008, the world economy entered a phase of high and growing indebtedness that fragilized its system on its financial grounds. On top of this, the dramatic prospects of the cost to fight climate deregulation will weight for at least two decades on our public finances. History shows that since the time the Italian city-states invented perpetual public debt to protect their monopoly over international trade, the world has been through long cycles of indebtedness and deleveraging. Through many experiences, developed countries have limited the cases of default on their debts, however defeated countries like Germany and Japan did not escape m...
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Offers a comprehensive analysis of the historical experiences of monetary policymaking of the world's largest central banks. Written in celebration of the 350th anniversary of the central bank of Sweden, Sveriges Riksbank. Includes chapters on other banks around the world written by leading economic scholars.
This book provides the first extensive analytic comparison between models and results from econophysics and financial economics in an accessible and common vocabulary. Unlike other publications dedicated to econophysics, it situates this field in the evolution of financial economics by laying the foundations for common theoretical framework and models.
Finance Capital Today is shortlisted for the The Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize 2017. Finance Capital Today presents a rich new analysis of the specific features of contemporary capitalism, notably its truly global nature and its financialisation, calling on Marxist analyses of the concentration, centralisation and globalisation of capital and Marx’s theory of interest-bearing and fictitious capital. Chesnais shows how financial globalisation and the exponential growth of financial assets have developed alongside the globalisation of productive capital, paying special attention to the contemporary operations of transnational corporations and global oligopoly. He argues that the macroeconomic perspective is one in which large amounts of capital are looking for profitable investment in a setting of underlying overproduction and low profits. The outcome will be low global growth, repeated financial shocks and the growing interconnection between the environmental and economic crises.