The role of Paris in international finance in the19th century

Arbulu, Pedro; Vaslin, Jacques-Marie

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“…Encouraged by a strong rentier social base, the French governments took measures to stimulate Paris as a major financial place with, as an evidence of state centrality, a tight control on the financial markets. In particular, it encouraged to invest in foreign securities with such a success that in 1911, foreign security purchases accounted for 38% of total French portfolio, from 25% in 1887 (Arbulu and Vaslin 2000). An appreciated measure was the passing of a law in the late 1880s exempting sovereign bonds from the introduced income tax and charging lower rates of stamp.…”

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This essay explores the life and work of West Indian psychiatrist, political philosopher, and anti-colonial revolutionary Franz Fanon .Frantz Fanon remains one of the most important theorists of anti-imperialism born in the twentieth century. Widely read in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, the Americas, and Europe, his texts have been used in anti-colonial, black theory, antiimperialist, feminist, cultural, post-colonial, and visual studies. He has been a reference for scholars, artists, filmmakers, and activists alike and his remarks, arguments, and analysis continue to resonate in communities around the world which are engaged in a struggle against exploitation and subjugation. Born Martinican but later thinking of himself as Algerian and trained as a psychiatrist, Fanon joined the Algerian National Front of Liberation and became an ardent advocate of emancipation from the colonial yoke.Fanon was the first theorist to powerfully articulate the link between political and individual emancipation, between race and modernity, between psychic life and the political, between the look and subjectivity, between national revolution and its aftermath. Fanon engaged with issues that authors, singers, and poets such as Aimé Césaire, Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Léon-Gontran Damas, or Rabindranath Tagore among many others had explored in their writings: the malaise of the colonised, his estrangement from his body and psyche, his rage, his anger, his desire to live as 'a man among other men'. Yet Fanon did not impute all the failings of the national struggle or of the post-colonial state to the colonial regime. One cause was 'also the result

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The role of Paris in international finance in the19th century

Abstract: In the XIXth century, Paris is a dominant international financial centre. In the second half of the XIXth century, many foreign projects get financing on the Paris market. This success can be explained by financial reasons. JEL Classification : N23

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