Beyond Banks

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Beyond Banks is written by Christiaan van Bochove and published by Springer Nature. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3031758196 (ISBN 10) and 9783031758195 (ISBN 13).

Scholars of credit markets have long focused on banks, but pre-modern as well as modern economies often relied on non-bank credit. This edited volume brings together international examples from across history that highlight how guilds, innkeepers, moneylenders, notaries, networks of family members and friends, and religious institutions – among others – mobilized credit before and even along banks. The volume operationalizes a common terminology and set of questions to allow for comparisons between the wide range of bank and non-bank credit arrangements across the globe and across time.​ It will be of interest to financial and economic historians, economists, and many other scholars in the humanities and social sciences.