Casualties of credit

Wennerlind, Carl.

Casualties of credit the English financial revolution, 1620-1720 / [electronic resource] : Carl Wennerlind. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011. - ix, 348 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The scarcity of money problem and the birth of English political economy -- The alchemical foundations of credit -- The epistemology of credit -- Capital punishment in defense of credit -- Public credit and the public sphere -- The South Sea Company and the restoration of public credit.


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Credit--History--England--17th century.
Finance--History--England--17th century.
Economics--History--England--17th century.


England--Economic conditions--17th century.


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HG3754.5.G7 / W46 2011eb

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