Taxing stock transfers in the first golden age of financial capitalism: political salience and the limits on the power of finance

E Massoc - Socio-Economic Review, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The current debate about taxing financial transactions is often presented as a brand new
one. It is not. At the turn of the 19th century, a similar tax was debated in France and the US …

An optimal world portfolio on the eve of world war I: Was there a bias to investing in the New World rather than in Europe?

C Edlinger, M Merli, A Parent - The journal of economic history, 2013 - cambridge.org
The geographical distributions of French and British foreign investment portfolios differ
markedly before World War I. Did French portfolios favor European investments just as …

Bourses, banks, and Boers: Johannesburg's French connections and the Paris Krach of 1895

M Lukasiewicz - Economic History of Developing Regions, 2021 - journals.co.za
ABSTRACT The 1894/5 Paris boom in South African mining securities set forth the ultimate
test of financial resilience for the South African Republic's mining and financial sectors. The …

Gold, Finance and Imperialism in South Africa, 1887–1902

M Lukasiewicz - Springer
Since its establishment in November 1887, the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) has
served as something of a mirror to South Africa's multifaceted political economy, reflecting its …