Government Debts and Financial Markets in Europe

Introduction; 1: The Financial Administration of North Hanseatic Cities in the Late Middle Ages: Development, Organization and Politics; 2: Government Debts and Credit Markets in Renaissance Italy; 3: Government Debts and Financial Markets in Castile Between the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries; 4: Government Debt and Financial Markets: Exploring Pro-Cycle Effects in Northern Italy during the Sixteenth and the Seventeenth Centuries; 5: Government Policies and the Development of Financial Markets: The Case of Madrid in the Seventeenth Century; 6: The Role Played by Short-Term Credit in the Spanish Monarchy's Finances; 7: From Subordination to Autonomy: Public Debt Policies and the Creation of a Self-Ruled Financial Market in the Kingdom of Naples in the Long Run (1500-1800); 8: Public Debt in the Papal States: Financial Market and Government Strategies in the Long Run (Seventeenth–Nineteenth Centuries); 9: Towards a New Public Credit Policy in Eighteenth-Century Spain: The Introduction of the Tesorer?a Mayor De Guerra (1703-6); 10: French Public Finance between 1683 and 1726; 11: Long-Term War Loans and Market Expectations in England, 1743-50; 12: Mercantilist Institutions for the Pursuit of Power with Profit: The Management of Britain's National Debt, 1756-1815; 13: Italian Government Debt Sustainability in the Long Run, 1861-2000; 14: Times of Wasteful Abundance: The Apogee of the Fiscal State in the Federal Republic of Germany from the 1960s to the 1980s; Conclusion: Final Remarks

Biography

Fausto Piola Caselli