Swiss Banking: An Analytical History FROM THE PUBLISHER
This volume provides a survey and examination of the roots of Swiss banking which lie deep in the history of both the Swiss people and Europe. The authors attempt to uncover the roots, and the historical circumstances surrounding them, of the banking system which is now the most successful in the world.
FROM THE CRITICS
Booknews
An economist and an economic historian distill and combine their years of study and writing about Swiss banking into a narrative from the Middle Ages to the 1980s. They explain that Basle had already become a principal banking center before it had joined the Swiss confederacy and long before the exile of the Huguenot bankers to whom the industry is traditionally traced. They emphasize the contexts of the Swiss people and of Europe in explaining how they banks became world institutions. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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