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Dark Matter Credit : The Development of Peer-to-Peer Lending and Banking in France / Philip T. Hoffman, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, Gilles Postel-Vinay.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The Princeton Economic History of the Western World ; 92Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691182179
  • 9780691185057
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 332.10944 23
LOC classification:
  • HG3028 .H64 2019
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. 1740 and the Rules of the Game -- Chapter 2. Spatial Variety versus Centralization: Change in Eighteenth- Century Credit Markets -- Chapter 3. The Revolution: Collapse, Reform, and Modeling the Space of Debt -- Chapter 4. Networks of Knowledge -- Chapter 5. The Brief but Significant Life of an Institutional Innovation -- Chapter 6. The Diffusion of Banks: Peer- to- Peer Credit Markets as Substitutes for Banks -- Chapter 7. Banks and Notaries -- Chapter 8. Prices Return -- Chapter 9. Conclusion -- Appendices -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: How a vast network of shadow credit financed European growth long before the advent of bankingPrevailing wisdom dictates that, without banks, countries would be mired in poverty. Yet somehow much of Europe managed to grow rich long before the diffusion of banks. Dark Matter Credit draws on centuries of cleverly collected loan data from France to reveal how credit abounded well before banks opened their doors. This incisive book shows how a vast system of shadow credit enabled nearly a third of French families to borrow in 1740, and by 1840 funded as much mortgage debt as the American banking system of the 1950s.Dark Matter Credit traces how this extensive private network outcompeted banks and thrived prior to World War I-not just in France but in Britain, Germany, and the United States-until killed off by government intervention after 1918. Overturning common assumptions about banks and economic growth, the book paints a revealing picture of an until-now hidden market of thousands of peer-to-peer loans made possible by a network of brokers who matched lenders with borrowers and certified the borrowers' creditworthiness.A major work of scholarship, Dark Matter Credit challenges widespread misperceptions about French economic history, such as the notion that banks proliferated slowly, and the idea that financial innovation was hobbled by French law. By documenting how intermediaries in the shadow credit market devised effective financial instruments, this compelling book provides new insights into how countries can develop and thrive today.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. 1740 and the Rules of the Game -- Chapter 2. Spatial Variety versus Centralization: Change in Eighteenth- Century Credit Markets -- Chapter 3. The Revolution: Collapse, Reform, and Modeling the Space of Debt -- Chapter 4. Networks of Knowledge -- Chapter 5. The Brief but Significant Life of an Institutional Innovation -- Chapter 6. The Diffusion of Banks: Peer- to- Peer Credit Markets as Substitutes for Banks -- Chapter 7. Banks and Notaries -- Chapter 8. Prices Return -- Chapter 9. Conclusion -- Appendices -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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How a vast network of shadow credit financed European growth long before the advent of bankingPrevailing wisdom dictates that, without banks, countries would be mired in poverty. Yet somehow much of Europe managed to grow rich long before the diffusion of banks. Dark Matter Credit draws on centuries of cleverly collected loan data from France to reveal how credit abounded well before banks opened their doors. This incisive book shows how a vast system of shadow credit enabled nearly a third of French families to borrow in 1740, and by 1840 funded as much mortgage debt as the American banking system of the 1950s.Dark Matter Credit traces how this extensive private network outcompeted banks and thrived prior to World War I-not just in France but in Britain, Germany, and the United States-until killed off by government intervention after 1918. Overturning common assumptions about banks and economic growth, the book paints a revealing picture of an until-now hidden market of thousands of peer-to-peer loans made possible by a network of brokers who matched lenders with borrowers and certified the borrowers' creditworthiness.A major work of scholarship, Dark Matter Credit challenges widespread misperceptions about French economic history, such as the notion that banks proliferated slowly, and the idea that financial innovation was hobbled by French law. By documenting how intermediaries in the shadow credit market devised effective financial instruments, this compelling book provides new insights into how countries can develop and thrive today.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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