Prometheus Shackled
Hans-Joachim (ICREA Research Professor, ICREA Research Professor, Economics Department, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona) Voth, Peter (Gray Professor Emeritus of Economics, Gray Professor Emeritus of Economics, MIT) Temin
Oxford University Press Inc, 2013
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Using new archival data from goldsmith banks, Temin and Voth document how government regulation and wartime financing stifled the growth of private credit markets during the Industrial Revolution. They show how, after a turbulent start, banks adapted and found a way to grow, but how the economy at large lost out.
- ISBN-13
- 9780199944279
- ISBN-10
- 019994427X
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc
- Year
- 2013
- Publication date
- 2013-02-14
- Pages
- 224
- Dimensions
- 241x161x15
- Weight
- 504