Decision Taking, Confidence and Risk Management in Banks from Early Modernity to the 20th Century

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 The House of Morgan: Private Family Bank in Transition

Chapter 3 Top Careers as a Means of Risk Management in Organisations

Chapter 4 Cooperative Governance in Banking: Consequences for Decision-Making Processes

Chapter 5 Minimising Risk: Financial Intermediaries and Bond Issuing in London before the Great War

Chapter 6 Financial Centres as Fields: Reflections on Habitus and Risk in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Chapter 7 The “Reputation Approach” and the Justificatory Function of Economic Calculation. Some Critical Reflections on Monika Pohle Fraser’s Analysis of Risk Management Techniques in the Nineteenth Century

Chapter 8 Investigating Attitudes to Risk in British Banking: A Case Study of Barclays’ Branch Banking System, c. 1900–80

Chapter 9 Between Novelty and Fashion: Risk Management and the Adoption of Computers in Retail Banking

Chapter 10 Social Capital Versus Commercial Profits: The Impact of Networks on Decision-Making in Early Modern Banks

Chapter 11 Risk Management, Credit and the Working of Merchants’ Networks in Early Modern Banking

Chapter 12 The Role of Group Psychology in Behavioural Finance: A Research Starting Point for Banking, Economic, and Financial Historians

Chapter 13 Behavioural Finance as a Methodological Approach for Historians? A Field Report Concerning the Construction of the Canal of Corinth in Nineteenth-Century Greece