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A history of interest rates

Author: Sidney Homer; Richard Eugene Sylla
Publisher: Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, 2005.
Series: Wiley finance series.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : English : 4th edView all editions and formats
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'A History of Interest Rates' presents a very readable account of interest rate trends and lending practices spanning over four millennia of economic history.
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Homer, Sidney, 1902-
History of interest rates.
Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, 2005
(OCoLC)654321031
Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Sidney Homer; Richard Eugene Sylla
ISBN: 0471732834 9780471732839
OCLC Number: 61758780
Notes: Series statement on jacket.
Description: xx, 710 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Prehistoric and primitive credit and interest --
Mesopotamia : Sumer, Babylonia, and Assyria --
Greece --
Rome --
A summary and analysis of ancient interest rates --
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 --
England in the eighteenth century --
Europe in the eighteenth century --
England in the nineteenth century --
France in the nineteenth century --
Other European centuries in the nineteenth century --
The United States in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries --
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 --
Japan --
The Old Sterling area : Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, and Pakistan --
Russia --
China --
Latin America --
Turn of the millennium : 1990-2005.
Series Title: Wiley finance series.
Other Titles: Interest rates
Responsibility: Sidney Homer and Richard Sylla.
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'A History of Interest Rates' presents a very readable account of interest rate trends and lending practices spanning over four millennia of economic history.

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