Finance, intermediaries, and economic development: [papers first presented at a conference, "In data veritas: institutions and growth in economic history" held in honor of Lance Davis at the California Institute of Technology, November 6 - 8, 1998]

This volume includes ten essays dealing with financial and other forms of economic intermediation in Europe, Canada, and the United States since the seventeenth century. Each relates the development of institutions to economic change and describes their evolution over time, as well as discussing several different forms of intermediation, and deals with significant economic and historical issues