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The Venetian Money Market: Banks, Panics, and the Public Debt, 1200-1500 (Money and Banking in Medieval and Renaissance Venice, Vol 2) Hardcover – June 19, 1997

by Reinhold C. Mueller (Author), Frederic Chapin (Author)

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In 1985, Frederic C. Lane and Reinhold C. Mueller published the magisterial Money and Banking in Medieval and Renaissance Venice, Volume 1: Coins and Moneys of Account. Now, after ten years of further research and writing, Reinhold Mueller completes the work that he and the late Frederic Lane began.

The history of money and banking in Venice is crucial to an understanding of European economic history. Because of its strategic location between East and West, Venice rapidly rose to a position of preeminence in Mediterranean trade. To keep trade moving and credit available from London to Constantinople and beyond, Venetian merchants and bankers created specialized financial institutions to serve private entrepreneurs and public administrators: deposit banks, foreign exchange banks, the grain office, and a bureau of the public debt. This new volume clarifies Venice's pivotal role in Italian and international banking and finance. It also sets banking--and panics--in the context of more generalized and recurrent crises involving territorial wars, competition for markets, and debates over interest rates and the question of usury.

"The single aspect that most characterizes Venetian history and historiography is the dominant role of the state in the life of the city and the symbiosis between public and private sectors of the economy, between public and private interests....A primary concern of civil authorities was to create an atmosphere of competitive opportunity on the Rialto conducive to investment, that is, to the influx of money and goods, their turnover in Venice, and their eventual outflow."--From The Venetian Money Market

The Venetian Money Market: Banks, Panics, and the Public Debt, 1200-1500 (Money and Banking in Medieval and Renaissance Venice, Vol 2)

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Series: Money and Banking in Medieval and Renaissance Venice, Vol 2
Hardcover: 744 pages
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press (June 19, 1997)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0801854377
ISBN-13: 978-0801854378
Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.3 x 1.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds
Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,555,427 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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- #3837 in Books > History > Europe > Italy
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Risky Business: The Financing of Mercantile Activity in Medieval and Renaissance Venice

By Melvin Sico on June 7, 2006

Format: Hardcover

In the 1200s, Venice, considered as the birthplace of modern capital-based enterprise, was a prosperous imperial power governed by a commerce-oriented oligarchy. The city-state's convenient marriage with the sea allowed Venetian businessmen to cultivate merchant traffic in the Eastern world, thereby paving the way for Venice to gain undisputed mercantile supremacy in the Levant. Venice's economic ascendancy was immeasurably attributable to the Republic's dynamic money market, which channeled the capital surplus of Venice's citizens into speculative ventures. From this ferment came significant financial innovations such as deposit banking, the giro payment system, and tradeable government debt. This book, with its trove of business microhistories detailing, among others, recurrent convulsions in the Venetian banking sector during medieval and Renaissance times, helps fill in the lacunae of our understanding of the economic history of the Western world. Mueller's command of the scholarship on Venetian economic history provides valuable context, and helps provide answers to questions such as: how did Venice and its economic system flourish at a time when wars and plagues continually roiled the geopolitical landscape?

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