Book contents
- Questioning Credible Commitment
- Series page
- Questioning Credible Commitment
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Could the crown credibly commit to respect its charters? England, 1558–1640
- 3 Contingent commitment: The development of English marine insurance in the context of New Institutional Economics, 1577–1720
- 4 Credibility, transparency, accountability, and the public credit under the Long Parliament and Commonwealth, 1643–1653
- 5 Jurisdictional controversy and the credibility of common law
- 6 The importance of not defaulting: The significance of the election of 1710
- 7 Financing and refinancing the War of the Spanish Succession, and then refinancing the South Sea Company
- 8 Sovereign debts, political structure, and institutional commitments in Italy, 1350–1700
- 9 Bounded leviathan: Fiscal constraints and financial development in the Early Modern Hispanic world
- 10 Court capitalism, illicit markets, and political legitimacy in eighteenth-century France: The salt and tobacco monopolies
- 11 Institutions, deficits, and wars: The determinants of British government borrowing costs from the end of the seventeenth century to 1850
- Index
Tables
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2013
Book contents
- Questioning Credible Commitment
- Series page
- Questioning Credible Commitment
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Could the crown credibly commit to respect its charters? England, 1558–1640
- 3 Contingent commitment: The development of English marine insurance in the context of New Institutional Economics, 1577–1720
- 4 Credibility, transparency, accountability, and the public credit under the Long Parliament and Commonwealth, 1643–1653
- 5 Jurisdictional controversy and the credibility of common law
- 6 The importance of not defaulting: The significance of the election of 1710
- 7 Financing and refinancing the War of the Spanish Succession, and then refinancing the South Sea Company
- 8 Sovereign debts, political structure, and institutional commitments in Italy, 1350–1700
- 9 Bounded leviathan: Fiscal constraints and financial development in the Early Modern Hispanic world
- 10 Court capitalism, illicit markets, and political legitimacy in eighteenth-century France: The salt and tobacco monopolies
- 11 Institutions, deficits, and wars: The determinants of British government borrowing costs from the end of the seventeenth century to 1850
- Index
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- Questioning Credible CommitmentPerspectives on the Rise of Financial Capitalism, pp. ix - xPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013