Finance, Intermediaries, and Economic Development

by Kenneth L. Sokoloff (Editor), Stanley L. Engerman (Editor), Philip T. Hoffman (Editor)

This volume includes ten essays concerned with financial and other forms of economic intermediation in Europe, Canada, and the United States, dating from the seventeenth century through the twentieth. The essays relate the development of institutions to economic change and describe their evolution over time. Each also discusses several different forms of intermediation and deals with significant economic and historical issues.

362 pages, Hardcover

First published July 14, 2003