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  • The Co-Operative Party – Reflections on a Re-Consideration

  • Sidney Pollard
  • Journal:
    International Review of Social History / Volume 32 / Issue 2 / August 1987
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    18 December 2008, pp. 168-173
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  • 2 - Banking and industrialization: Rondo Cameron twenty years on

  • Edited by Youssef Cassis, Université de Genève
  • Book:
    Finance and Financiers in European History 1880–1960
    Published online:
    12 January 2010
    Print publication:
    12 December 1991, pp 17-36

  • Summary

    It is now just over twenty years since Rondo Cameron published, in 1967, his pioneering study on Banking in the early stages of industrialization in which he set out to reassess the role of banking and of the financial intermediaries generally in the phase of the industrial revolution. The conclusion he reached was that their significance was greater than had up to then been allowed. A second volume of essays followed five years later.

    Not all financial intermediaries operating in the early stages could be properly called ‘banks’, but we shall, following Cameron's example, use this term as a shorthand for all the relevant institutions. We should emphasize also that we shall be concerned, as was he, with the early or breakthrough stages of industrialization, including what has come to be known as the ‘take-off’, which is a stage considerably earlier than is covered by most of the other chapters in this book. But we hope to be able to show that the discussion of the role of banking in the earlier phase has relevance to the wider discussion of the significance of banking in all phases of modern economic development.

    In his introduction, Cameron described the stark contrast existing in the literature. There were those, ‘the majority of economists who have dealt with this question’, who assumed that financial intermediaries would appear as soon as they were needed – ‘a case of demand creating its own supply’. At the other extreme, there were actual historical instances ‘in which financial institutions constituted leading sectors in development: these institutions were “growth-inducing” through direct industrial promotion and finance’.

  • Reflections on Entrepreneurship and Culture in European Societies

  • Sidney Pollard
  • Journal:
    Transactions of the Royal Historical Society / Volume 40 / December 1990
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    12 February 2009, pp. 153-173
    Print publication:
    December 1990

  • The theme which I have been asked to consider refers to the whole of Europe, but the terms on which it has been defined made it clear that the focus of interest was still to lie in Britain. I shall bear that focus in mind.

    After a brief review of the debate relating to entrepreneurship and culture in Britain in the late Victorian and Edwardian period, the period with which I shall be more specifically concerned, and a similarly cursory examination of the role of entrepreneurship in economic theory and in the writings of economic historians in recent decades, I shall turn to the main theme, entrepreneurship and its cultural setting in the decades before World War I in the rest of Europe. A return to the British problem will complete the paper.

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