Law, Politics and Financial Development: The Great Reversal of the U.K. Corporate Debt Market

This article examines the role of creditor protection in the development of the U.K. corporate bond market. This market grew rapidly in the late nineteenth century, but in the twentieth century it experienced a reversal, albeit with a short-lived post-1945 renaissance. Such was the extent of the reversal that the market from the 1970s onwards was smaller than it had been in 1870. We find that law does not explain the variation in the size of this market over time. Alternatively, our evidence suggests that inflation and taxation policies were major drivers of this market in the post-1945 era. Copyright © The Economic History Association 2013

A sermon, delivered at the meeting house of the second parish in Portland, August 20, 1812 : on the occasion of the national fast /

Published at the particular request of the congregation.

A sermon, delivered at the meeting house of the second parish in Portland, August 20, 1812 : on the occasion of the national fast

Published at the particular request of the congregation.

The “Great Queen of Lightninge Flashes”: the transmission of female-voiced burlesque poetry in the early seventeenth century

The essay uncovers evidence for the construction of the ‘woman author’ in the largely male vogue for bawdy burlesque poetry by tracing the circulation of a pair of verses through seventeenth-century manuscript and print miscellanies. It argues that just as these verses are reworked and recontextualised through the process of transmission, so to their ‘authors’ are re-embodied and ascribed different identities in different publication contexts. Female-voiced bawdy poetry raises particular problems for authorial attribution, rather than searching for the real woman behind the text, the essay examines how the ‘authors’ of female-voiced bawdy poetry were produced and reproduced through shifting formal frameworks and socioliterary networks.

Reactivation and development: the great commitment of Latin America and the Caribbean

Analiza la crisis economica, su origen, evolucion y perspectivas, y sostiene que es imperativo promover primero la recuperacion y luego el crecimiento sostenido de las economias, para lo cual son condiciones necesarias la aplicacion de politicas internas adecuadas, un ambiente externo favorable y una activa cooperacion internacional y regional.

A century of finance : 1804 to 1904 ; the London house of Rothschild

[Jules Ayer]