Finance and Modernization
Farnham. 2008
Editors
Gerald D. Feldman
Peter Hertner
Iain L. Fraser
Monika Pohle Fraser
‘Finance and Modernization’ centres on a set of historical developments and problems typified by the long history of the Oesterreichische Creditanstalt and its successor organizations, and opens the way to compare and contrast experiences throughout Central and Western Europe and also on other continents. The structure of this volume reflects the changing role and nature of banks as economies become industrialized and modernized. Although banks adapt to the needs of an industrializing economy, at the same time, industrialization influences the manner in which banking systems grow and the structures which they adopt.
Table of contents
- ‘The Bankers’ View’: Austria’s Economic and Political Development and the Role of the Banks (Dieter Stiefel)
- In the Centre of Europe: Vienna as a Financial Hub, 1873-1913 (Peter Eigner)
- Torn between Monetary and Financial Stability: An Analysis of Selected Episodes of Austrian Central Banking History (Aurel Schubert)
- Austrian Banking Between Two Great Depressions: The Creditanstalt from the 1870s to the 1930s (Fritz Weber)
- Efficiency of Early German Stock Markets, 1836-1848 (Hartmut Kiehling)
- The Balkan Railways, International Capital and Banking from the End of the Nineteenth Century until the Outbreak of the First World War (Peter Hertner)
- Modern Communication: The Information Network of N. M. Rothschild & Sons in Nineteenth-Century Europe (Rainer Liedtke)
- The Emergence of Joint-Stock Companies during the Industrial Breakthrough in Sweden (Oskar Broberg)
- The Modernization of a Dutch Commercial Bank: The Twentsche Bank, 1858-1931
- Success and Failure of Modernization in Post-War Greek Banking: The Case of Ergasias Bank (Margarita Dritsas)
- Patriotic Banking and the Modernization of China: The Banque industrielle de Chine, 1900-1922 (Frank H.H. King)
- Two Centuries of Apex Banking: The State Bank of India and the Evolution of Modern Banking in India (Abhik Ray)