Foundations of Finance or Industrial Revolution in National Context

Foundations of Finance

Author: Arthur J Keown

This introduction to finance provides a conceptual understanding of the financial decision-making process — rather than just an introduction to the tools and techniques of finance — and focuses on the interrelationships among the topics covered. It explores the “big picture” and actual practice — i.e., financial decision making rooted in current financial theory and in the current state of world economic conditions. Chapter topics include financial markets and interest rates; understanding financial statements and cash flows; evaluating a firm's financial performance; financial forecasting, planning, and budgeting; the time value of money; valuation and characteristics of bonds and stocks; the meaning and measurement of risk and return; the cost of capital; dividend policy and internal financing; working-capital management; liquid asset management; and international business finance. For financial managers and others involved in corporate financial decisions — and for individuals interested in an education in finance, and the logic that drives it.

See also: Majoring in the Rest of Your Life or Money and Capital Markets

Industrial Revolution in National Context

Author: Mikulas Teich

The Industrial Revolution has been, and continues to be, the focus of massive historiographical as well as historical enquiry. This collection includes reappraisals by Phyllis Deane and by François Crouzet of their classic accounts of industrialization in Britain and in France, and more generally broaches the wider issue of "new approaches" that have been emerging for the understanding of the industrializing process in nations where it came somewhat later.

Table of Contents:

	Notes on contributors
	Acknowledgements
	General maps and graphs
	Introduction	1
1	The British Industrial Revolution	13
2	France	36
3	The Industrial Revolution in Belgium	64
4	Industrialization in The Netherlands	78
5	German industrialization	95
6	Switzerland	126
7	Italy in the longue duree: the return of an old first-comer	149
8	A latecomer: the modernization of the Spanish economy, 1800-1990	184
9	The Industrial Revolution in Sweden	201
10	Austria: industrialization in a multinational setting	226
11	The Industrial Revolution: Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia	247
12	Hungary: a semi-successful peripheral industrialization	265
13	The Industrial Revolution and the countries of South-eastern Europe in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries	290
14	Industrial revolution in Russia	329
15	Revolutions and continuities in American development	350
16	The Industrial Revolution - an overview	371
	Index	389