Considerations of Social Capital and Future Research in Banking History

Morten Reitmayer ()
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A chapter in Decision Taking, Confidence and Risk Management in Banks from Early Modernity to the 20th Century, 2017, pp 315-332 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This paper examines the relationship between business or banking history and general history. The author casts doubt on the idea that methodological innovation alone can bridge the gap between sub-disciplines and general history. However, it seems that the relationship may be improved by testing the concept of social capital, which has to date only been used in banking history in a very limited way. This promises to raise and answer new questions. Furthermore, banking historians can meet the interests of general history by contributing their specific expertise to several current debates on the future of democratic capitalism.

Keywords: Social Capital; General History; Symbolic Capital; Hostile Takeover; Methodological Innovation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-42076-9_14

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