London and Paris as International Financial Centres in the Twentieth Century.
London and Paris, the world's two leading financial centres in the nineteenth century, experienced differing fortunes during the twentieth century. While London remained an international financial centre, Paris' influence declined. Yet over the last twenty years deregulation, international...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
OUP Oxford,
2005.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | London and Paris, the world's two leading financial centres in the nineteenth century, experienced differing fortunes during the twentieth century. While London remained an international financial centre, Paris' influence declined. Yet over the last twenty years deregulation, internationalization, and the advent of the single currency have reactivated their competition in ways reminiscent of their old rivalry before the First World War. This book provides a long-term perspective on the development of each centre, with special attention devoted to the pre-1914 years and to the last decades of th. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (382 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780191533471 0191533475 |