Financial Innovation and Resilience

Chapter 1 The Pattern of Central Bank Development: Past, Present and Future

Chapter 2 The Public Banks of Naples Between Financial Innovation and Crisis

Chapter 3 Before the Public Banks: Innovation and Resilience by Charities in Fifteenth-Century Naples

Chapter 4 Between Charity and Credit: The Evolution of the Neapolitan Banking System (Sixteenth–Seventeenth Century)

Chapter 5 The Investments of the Neapolitan Public Banks: A Long Run View (1587–1806)

Chapter 6 The Variety of Financial Innovations in European War Finance during the Thirty Years’ War (1618–1648)

Chapter 7 Public Banks and State Finance in Florence and Venice

Chapter 8 Conflicts, Financial Innovations, and Economic Trends in the Italian States during the Thirty Years’ War

Chapter 9 Experimenting with Paper Money during the English Civil Wars and Interregnum: Monetisation Versus Securitisation, 1643–1663

Chapter 10 Neapolitan Banks in the Context of Early Modern Public Banks

Chapter 11 The Institutional Foundations of Successful Public Borrowing—Models of Public Banks in Habsburg Austria and Habsburg Naples 1700–1800

Chapter 12 John Law: A Twenty-First Century Banker in the Eighteenth Century?

Chapter 13 The Bank of Amsterdam’s Search for Success and Stability

Chapter 14 Banks, Financial Markets and the Development of International Currencies

Chapter 15 Public Banks, Public Orientation and the Great Financial Crisis of 2007–2008

Chapter 16 Profit and Non-profit Motives in the Public Banks of Naples: An Old Model in Modern Perspective