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Alexander Gerschenkron was Harvard’s economic historian in the third quarter of the twentieth century. His early life was dominated by twin experiences of traumatic displacement during the Russian Civil War and Anschluss.
nomic historians since the 1950s (e.g., Cameron, 1961; Gerschenkron, 1962) have suggested that the Crédit Mobilier was the most important example of a financial intermediary engaged in financing French eco nomic development. Massive public works and long-term investment projects were facilitated by the Crédit Mobilier's role in restructuring
Adding to the usefulness of current-account credit as an indicator of the extent of industrial financing by banks is its growth as opposed to that of domestic bill credit. Until 1895 current- account credit grew at a rate only moderately faster than that of domestic bill credit.
15 lis 2010 · A l'inverse, le crédit mobilier a joué un rôle déterminant dans l'industrialisation de la France, et les banques universelles dans celle de l'Allemagne. L'intervention de l'Etat est d'autant...
was the establishment of the Crédit Mobilier in France in 1852. Although the French initiative soon foundered, it pioneered the notion of providing long-term bank loans to finance industrial development. This idea was taken up and adapted in Germany and led to the creation of universal banks which provided long-term finance for investment.
7 cze 2024 · The Pereire brothers could not form a Credit Mobilier in Austria (Credit-Anstalt) only because the Rothschilds were predisposed to create a bank like Credit Mobilier, which would invest in building railways and develop the industry in the country.
Alexander Gerschenkron, Walter S. Barker Professor of Economics Emeritus at Har- vard University, died in Cambridge, Massachusetts October 26, 1978, at the age of sev- enty-four. He was an influential teacher who, in his courses, introduced more than 1000.
