Social Aims of Finance

Frankfurt. 2020

Editors

Anna Cantaluppi

Chloe Colchester

Lilia Costabile

Carmen Hofmann

Catherine Schenk

Matthias Weber

This volume explores how financial institutions have developed alternative goals and business forms in order to combine sustainability and profitability.

Table of contents

• Uses of the past in banking and financial history. Social aims of finance and history (Catherine Schenk)
• Between ethics and profit. Shaping a coordinated credit network in pre-modern and modern Italy (Mauro Carboni & Massimo Fornasari)
• Keys to financial success of socially oriented banks. The Neapolitan ‘banks of the charities’ (Lilia Costabile)
• The Compagnia di San Paolo in Turin. Charity and credit (16th to 20th centuries) (Claudio Bermond & Fausto Piola Caselli)
• The contemporary history of impact investing. An interpretive political economy perspective on the ecosystem (Maximilian Martin)
• Social entrepreneurship. The Rothschilds as bankers and philanthropists (1850-1914) (Klaus Weber)
• British building societies 1970-2010. The changing conditions for a viable not-for-profit alternative in a financialised economy (Olivier Butzbach)
• Whose self-interest? Social elites, religious competition, and the rise of Raiffeisen banks in the Netherlands (Christopher L. Colvin)
• Adapting to a changing world. Swedish savings banks in the 21st century (Tom Petersson)
• Tracing the connections between charity and banking in the Archives of Compagnia di San Paolo (Anna Cantaluppi)
• The administration of political decisions on credit. The minute books of the Monte di Pietà of Bologna in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (Armando Antonelli)
• Evolutionary archives. From description to narration (Concetta Damiani, Claudia Grossi & Gloria Guida)
• Bank of Canada Archives. Background, reinvention and renewal (Jane Boyko)
• Johannesburg’s financial globalization (c.1880-1910) and South African financial archives (Mariusz Lukasiewicz)
• Good businesses and good archives. Perspectives from the records of a moneylender in rural India (J. Howard M. Jones)
• The Crédit Agricole Archives (Pascal Pénot)
• Project for recovery of Spain’s banking archives (María de Inclán Sánchez & Elena Serrano García)
• The historical archives of the European Investment Bank. A non-profit European Union institution (Valérie Mathevon)