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Dark Matter Credit : The Development of Peer-to-Peer Lending and Banking in France

ISBN 9780691182179
Pages 320
Year 2019
Edition 1
Rs 2399.00 Rs 1919.20
Description
Prevailing 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.

About Author(s)
 Philip T. Hoffman is the Rea A. and Lela G. Axline Professor of Business Economics and History at the California Institute of Technology.Gilles Postel-Vinay is professor emeritus at the Paris School of Economics.Jean-Laurent Rosenthal is the Rea A. and Lela G. Axline Professor of Business Economics and the Ronald and Maxine Linde Leadership Chair in the Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences at the California Institute of Technology.
Content
Introduction

Chapter 1.1740 and the Rules of the Game

Chapter 2.Spatial Variety versus Centralization: Change in Eighteen-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 pf 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

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