Full Description
Scholars of credit markets have long focused on banks, but pre-modern as well as modern economies often relied on non-bank credit. This edited volume brings together international examples from across history that highlight how guilds, innkeepers, moneylenders, notaries, networks of family members and friends, and religious institutions - among others - mobilized credit before and even along banks. The volume operationalizes a common terminology and set of questions to allow for comparisons between the wide range of bank and non-bank credit arrangements across the globe and across time. It will be of interest to financial and economic historians, economists, and many other scholars in the humanities and social sciences.
Contents
Chapter 1: Beyond Banks: An Introduction Christiaan van Bochove, Juliette Levy.- Chapter 2: The Decline of a Great Financial Intermediary: Notaries in France, 1851-1934 Philip Hoffman, Gilles Postel-Vinay, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal.- Chapter 3: Financial Intermediation in Colonial 17th- and 18th-Century Buenos Aires: Credit, Trust, and Asymmetric Information Martín Wasserman.- Chapter 4: A Network Analysis of Credit Transactions at the Cape Colony During the 18th Century Christie Swanepoel.- Chapter 5: An Enslaved Credit Market: Slavery, Deeds, and Litigation in 19th-Century Rio de Janeiro's Financial Landscape Clemente Penna.- Chapter 6: From Peer-to-Peer Credit to Banks: A Study of Credit Networks in Uppsala (1810-1910) Elise M. Dermineur.- Chapter 7: Consumer Credit in Early Modern Venice: The Lending Activity of Innkeepers and Bastioneri Matteo Pompermaier.- Chapter 8: Lender Classifications and Contracts: Categorization in The All-India Surveys (1951-2012) and Evidence From the Account Books of a Moneylender in Rajasthan (1982-2015) J. Howard M. Jones.- Chapter 9 : Sacré Crédit! The Rise and Fall of Ecclesiastical Credit in Early Modern Spain Cyril Milhaud.- Chapter 10: Banking Before Banks in Early Modern Japan: Buddhist Temple Finance Matthew Mitchell.- Chapter 11: Ottoman Guilds as Credit-Providing Institutions From the Late 17th to the Early 19th Century Konstantinos Giakoumis.
