Europe's advantage : banks and small firms in Britain, France, Germany, and Italy since 1918

Europe's advantage : banks and small firms in Britain, France, Germany, and Italy since 1918 / Francesca Carnevali.

This book explores the causes of the decline of British manufacturing in the 20th century by focusing on the troubled relationship between banks and small firms in a comparative historical perspective. It compares the rise of small firms in France, Germany and Italy and their decline in Britain.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Carnevali, Francesca
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Subjects:
Small business > Europe.
Small business > Great Britain.
Small business > Europe > Finance.
Small business > Great Britain > Finance.
Banks and banking > Europe.
Banks and banking > Great Britain.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Small Business.
Banks and banking
Small business
Small business > Finance
Industriële ontwikkeling.
Kleinbedrijf.
Banken (financiële instellingen)
Europe
Great Britain
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Table of Contents:
  • List of archives and abbreviations
  • List of tables
  • 1. Introduction
  • pt. I. Britain, Germany, France, and Italy before 1939
  • 2. Banking cartels and industrial concentration in Britain
  • 3. Local systems of production in Germany
  • 4. Small firms and the Synthèse républicaine
  • 5. Italy's alternative model of industrialization
  • pt. II. Small firms and banks after 1945
  • 6. The demise of small firms in Britain
  • 7. Credit rationing in Britain after 1945
  • 8. Germany and the limits of organized capitalism
  • 9. The permanence of small firms in France
  • 10. Small firms and Made in Italy
  • 11. Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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