Casualities of Credit

✍ Scribed by Carl Wennerlind

Publisher: Harvard University Press
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Leaves: 361
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

With a circulating credit currency, a modern national debt, and sophisticated financial markets, England developed a fiscal-military state that instilled fear and facilitated the first industrial revolution. Yet this new system of credit was precarious and prone to accidents, and it depended on trust, public opinion, and ultimately violence.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction
I. Alchemy and Credit
1. The Scarcity of Money Problem and the Birth of English Political Economy
2. The Alchemical Foundations of Credit
II. Death Penalty and Credit
3. The Epistemology of Credit
4. Capital Punishment in Defense of Credit
III. Slavery and Credit
5. Public Credit and the Public Sphere
6. The South Sea Company and the Restoration of Public Credit
Epilogue
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

✦ Subjects

History, Economics, Political Science

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