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History of Interest Rates

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ISBN-10: 0471732834

ISBN-13: 9780471732839

Edition: 4th 2005 (Revised)

Authors: Sidney Homer, Richard Sylla

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A History of Interest Rates presents a very readable account of interest rate trends and lending practices over four millennia of economic history. Despite the paucity of data prior to the Industrial Revolution, authors Homer and Sylla provide a highly detailed analysis of money markets and borrowing practices in major economies. Underlying the analysis is their assertion that "the free market long-term rates of interest for any industrial nation, properly charted, provide a sort of fever chart of the economic and political health of that nation." Given the enormous volatility of rates in the 20th century, this implies we're living in age of political and economic excesses that are…    
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Book details

List price: $105.00
Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/29/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 736
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.96" tall
Weight: 2.750
Language: English

Foreword
Preface to the Fourth Edition
Summary Tables
Summary Charts
Introduction
Ancient Times
Prehistoric and Primitive Credit and Interest
Mesopotamia: Sumer, Babylonia, and Assyria
Greece
Rome
A Summary and Analysis of Ancient Interest Rates
Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Usury Doctrines and Their Effect on European Credit Forms and Interest
The Dark Ages
Late Medieval Times
The Renaissance
A Summary and Analysis of Medieval and Renaissance Interest Rates in Western Europe
Modern Europe and North America to 1900
England in the Eighteenth Century
Europe in the Eighteenth Century
England in the Nineteenth Century
France in the Nineteenth Century
Other European Countries in the Nineteenth Century
The United States in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Europe and North America Since 1900
The United States in the Twentieth Century: 1900-1945
The United States in the Twentieth Century: 1946-1990
England in the Twentieth Century
Europe in the Twentieth Century: France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Italy
Europe in the Twentieth Century: Switzerland, Austria, Scandinavia, Ireland, Iberia, and Turkey
Canada in the Twentieth Century
Summary and Analysis of Interest Rates in Europe and North America Since 1700
Other Countries and the 1990's
Japan
The Old Sterling Area: Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, and Pakistan
Russia
China
Latin America
Turn of the Millennium: 1990-2005
Notes
Index