Priceless Markets

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. The Institutions of Credit Markets
2. From Notarial Archives to Credit
3. Stagnation and Decline, 1660-1715
4. The Crisis of Public Finance and the Law Affair, 1712-26
5. An Explosion of Private Borrowing, 1726-89
6. Overcoming Asymetric Information in Financial Markets
7. Notaries, Banking, and the Expansion of Credit in Old-Regime Paris
8. Micro-Economics and Macro-Politics: Credit and Inflation during the French Revolution
9. The Long-Term Financial Consequences of the Revolution
10. Institutions and Information after the Revolution
11. The Rise of the Credit Foncier
Conclusion
Appendixes
Archival Sources
Bibliography
Index