Finance, intermediaries, and economic development

"Papers first presented at a conference 'In data veritas: institutions and growth in economic history' held in honor of Lance Davis at the California Institute of Technology, November 6-8, 1998" [Preface, p. IX].

Edited by Stanley L. Engerman, Philip T. Hoffman, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, Kenneth L. Sokoloff.

Part I, Financial Intermediaries in Europe: 1: Markets and institutions in the rise of London as a financial center in the seventeenth century / Larry Neal, Steven Quinn; 2: The Paris bourse, 1724-1814: experiments in microstructure / Eugene N. White; 3: No exit: notarial bankruptcies and the evolution of financial intermediation in nineteenth century Paris / Philip T. Hoffman, Gilles Postel-Vinay, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal; Part II, Financial intermediaries in the Americas: 4: The mortgage market in Upper Canada: window on a pioneer economy / Angela Redish; 5: Integration of U.S. capital markets: southern stock markets and the case of New Orleans, 1871-1913 / John B. Legler, Richard Sylla; 6: The transition from building and loan to savings and loan, 1890-1940 / Kenneth A. Snowden; Part III, Other Forms of Intermediation: 7: Intermediaries in the U.S. market for Technology, 1870-1920 / Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Kenneth L. Sokoloff; 8: Beyond Chinatown: social networks, economic development, and overseas Chinese intermediaries on the multiethnic North-American Pacific coast in the age of financial capital / Dianne Newell; 9: Finance and capital accumulation in a planned economy: the agricu…