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Finance and Economic Development in the Very Long Run: A Review Essay

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I review William N. Goetzmann's Money Changes Everything: How Finance Made Civilization Possible. This magnificent book offers insightful coverage of more than 5,000 years of human history under the theme of "how finance made civilization possible." I reinterpret its main hypotheses in the context of recent economic research on finance and development, and also compare them with other economic historians' views. I suggest that further examinations of the historical facts in the book could guide us in rethinking financial regulation.

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  • Yongseok Shin, 2018. "Finance and Economic Development in the Very Long Run: A Review Essay," Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association, vol. 56(4), pages 1577-1586, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:aea:jeclit:v:56:y:2018:i:4:p:1577-86
    Note: DOI: 10.1257/jel.20171407
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    JEL classification:

    • E42 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Monetary Sytsems; Standards; Regimes; Government and the Monetary System
    • E44 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
    • G00 - Financial Economics - - General - - - General
    • N20 - Economic History - - Financial Markets and Institutions - - - General, International, or Comparative

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