Economic and Financial Crises and Transformations in Sixteenth-Century Europe

C.P. Kindleberger

Princeton Essays in International Economics from International Economics Section, Departement of Economics Princeton University,

Abstract: Financial revolutions in Europe have been ascribed to the Italian innovation of the bill of exchange in the thirteenth century and to the British ordering of government debt at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries. Less attention has been paid to the series of financial crises and ensuing transformations in teh sixteenth century, occuring especially in the 1550s and involving at least five broad and parallel changes in national and international finance.

Keywords: EUROPE; HISTORY; MONEY (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F30 N23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27 pages
Date: 1998
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