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The Capital Market of Manila and the Pacific Trade, 1668-1838 : Institutions and Trade during the First Globalization / by Juan José Rivas Moreno

By: Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Palgrave Studies in Economic HistoryPublisher: Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024Publisher: Cham : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024Description: 1 Online-Ressource (XVII, 296 p. 18 illus., 15 illus. in color.)ISBN:
  • 9783031718106
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: 9783031718090 | 9783031718113 | 9783031718120 | Erscheint auch als: 9783031718090 Druck-Ausgabe | Erscheint auch als: 9783031718113 Druck-Ausgabe | Erscheint auch als: 9783031718120 Druck-AusgabeDDC classification:
  • 330.9 23
DOI: DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-71810-6Online resources: Summary: Chapter I: Introduction -- Chapter II - The Manila Trade -- Chapter III - The Capital Markets of the Manila Trade -- Chapter IV - The Business Model of the one-Galleon System -- Chapter V – An Alternative model of Trade Finance -- Chapter VI – The Political Economy of the Manila trade -- Chapter VII – Conclusion.Summary: Economic history has always emphasized the importance of long-distance trade in the emergence of modern financial markets, yet almost nothing is known about the Manila trade. This book offers the first reconstruction of the capital market of Manila using new archival sources that have never been used in the economic history of Pacific trade. The book explains how trade between Asia and Spanish America across the Pacific, which lasted for 250 years (1571 – 1815) was financed from the city of Manila.The book analyses the political economy and institutional structures of the Manila capital market in the context of the global silver trade, as well as addressing key similarities and differences with European trade routes and differing approaches to colonialism and commerce in Asian waters. It traces how the Manila capital market emerged in a bottom-up process with a redistributive aspect that tied the interests of citizens with the fortunes of trade, using institutions familiar to the public like legacy funds, brotherhoods and lay religious orders to pool liquidity, originate working capital, and internalise the risk of loss at sea. It challenges the notion that there is a normative model for the development of capital markets and introduces an industrial organisation analysis to the broader structure of Early Modern trade in the Spanish Empire. Sitting at the intersection of economic and financial history, global history, imperial history and political economy, this book will be a cutting-edge and valuable resource for a broad range of scholars. Juan José Rivas Moreno is a historian of early modern finance, specialising in the financing of the Pacific trade. He obtained his PhD in Economic History from London School of Economics in 2023 with a thesis on the capital market of Manila which received the Coleman Prize 2024. Juan José was the recipient of a Newberry Library short-term fellowship and held an Economic History Society Fellowship in 2023-2024. Currently he is a Max Weber fellow at the European University Institute in Florence.PPN: PPN: 1906404267Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-2-SEB | ZDB-2-ECF | ZDB-2-SXEF
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