Overview
- Discussion of the role of banks for capitalist economies
- Strong proposition about the importance of the finance system - but seldom discussed
- Profound sociological analysis of the European banking system
Part of the book series: Wirtschaft + Gesellschaft (WUG)
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About this book
What are the grand dynamics that drive the history of economies? The laws of supply & demand, most economists would argue. For the history of European banking, this book offers an alternative explanation: Rather than market forces, the coincidence and coalitions of charismatic ideas and powerful interests is what shaped banking in Europe! In “Ideas, Interests and the Development of the European Banking Systems”, Florian Brugger traced decisive moments in the history of the European Banking Sector: from the time of the Italian City-States to the post World War I period, he shows how coalitions of ideas and interests built the tracks along which the European Banking Sector developed.
Inspired by Max Weber he argues that economic organizations and institutions, like the Banking Sector, are embedded into three fundamental orders: the economic, the cultural and the political order. Enforced and institutionalized by vested interests, ideas of the cultural order legitimate and empower interests of the economic and political order. What is more, decisive moments were frequently characterized by coalitions of ideas and interests between parties that in normal times had nothing in common or were even confronting each other in a hostile way.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Florian Brugger holds a PHD in Sociology and in Economics. His main research interests are in the field of financial markets, banking, technological change, economic sociology and the influence of ideas and interests on economic institutions. He works at the Institute for Sociology at the Karl-Franzens-University Graz.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ideas, Interests and the Development of the European Banking Systems
Authors: Florian Brugger
Series Title: Wirtschaft + Gesellschaft
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-30597-0
Publisher: Springer VS Wiesbaden
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-30596-3Published: 18 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-30597-0Published: 17 August 2020
Series ISSN: 2626-6156
Series E-ISSN: 2626-6164
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 381