The Origins and Development of Financial Markets and Institutions

The Origins and Development of Financial Markets and Institutions
Author: Jeremy Atack
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 497
Release: 2009-03-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1139477048

Collectively, mankind has never had it so good despite periodic economic crises of which the current sub-prime crisis is merely the latest example. Much of this success is attributable to the increasing efficiency of the world's financial institutions as finance has proved to be one of the most important causal factors in economic performance. In a series of insightful essays, financial and economic historians examine how financial innovations from the seventeenth century to the present have continually challenged established institutional arrangements, forcing change and adaptation by governments, financial intermediaries, and financial markets. Where these have been successful, wealth creation and growth have followed. When they failed, growth slowed and sometimes economic decline has followed. These essays illustrate the difficulties of co-ordinating financial innovations in order to sustain their benefits for the wider economy, a theme that will be of interest to policy makers as well as economic historians.

Historic Resource Study

Historic Resource Study
Author: Harlan D. Unrau
Publisher:
Total Pages: 860
Release: 2007
Genre: Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (Md. and Washington, D.C.)
ISBN:

The Goldsmith's Handbook

The Goldsmith's Handbook
Author: George Edward Gee
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2024-05-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3385472806

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

Sleep Medicine

Sleep Medicine
Author: Sudhansu Chokroverty
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 552
Release: 2015-09-22
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1493920898

This comprehensive volume provides a balanced and easily readable account of the rise of modern sleep medicine, its history and developmental milestones. Authored by an international group of experts, the remarkable progress and fascinating evolution from rudimentary concepts of the ancient prehistoric and early classical periods to our contemporary knowledge are covered in detail. These examples and their relationship to modern therapies offer neurologists, psychiatrists, respiratory specialists, clinicians, researchers and those interested in sleep medicine an important perspective to the origins of current practice.

Paddy Mo

Paddy Mo
Author: Owen McCrohan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2008
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781843510772

A biography that charts the life of the Dingle-born Chief Executive of the ESB, who revolutionized corporate life during the 1980s and 90s. He became one of Ireland's leading business people of the twentieth century, when he transformed the ESB into a world-class electricity provider and a highly efficient organization.