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Financial History Monograph Series: Pickering &
Chatto of London
Series editor: Robert E. Wright
Financial history is a relatively new but burgeoning field of study.
Inherently interdisciplinary, it is traditionally defined as a subfield of
economic history encompassing the study of past financial institutions,
markets, and theories. However, at its best, as in the work of Niall Ferguson
and Richard Sylla, financial history represents a new
way to approach crucial questions of broad import to scholars and
policymakers. Scholars are becoming increasingly aware that application of
financial theories and concepts -- from relatively simple ones like present
value to more advanced ones like portfolio choice, agency theory, and the
economics of asymmetric information -- can elucidate the past (and the
present) in ways numerous and deep. Financial history therefore increasingly
stands as an independent method of inquiry into some of our most intractable
problems: economic growth, financial concentration, health care, long-term
care, monetary policy, political development, social welfare programs, even,
as Ferguson shows, foreign policy and the very nature of democracy itself.
The aim of this series is to expand the scope of financial history research
by providing scholars with a new outlet for their work and by providing
readers and libraries with a steady source of high-quality titles. Works that
apply financial theories or perspectives to questions of perennial historiographical interest (e.g., imperialism or popular
attitudes toward capitalism) or that use financial history to illuminate
current public policy debates (e.g., Social Security or health care reform)
will be published, as will traditional financial history topics like country
studies (e.g., a history of the financial institutions of Mexico), industry
studies (e.g., the historical development of marine insurance), company
histories (e.g., a history of a large investment bank), biographies of
financiers (e.g., a biography of a leading commercial banker in nineteenth
century Japan), market studies (e.g., the development of stock options),
corporate finance and governance, public finance, and combinations thereof
(e.g., a history of the stock market in South Africa as seen through the
development of a specific brokerage, or a history of banking in Botswana
viewed through the biography of a banker). Manuscripts on traditional topics
that effectively draw out their wider importance or implications will meet
with more editorial favour than ones devoid of
context or designed merely to fill perceived lacunae in the literature.
Readership
Economists who specialize in finance or economic growth, economic historians,
and historians of banking, business, corporations, economic growth, economic
thought, finance, and insurance will constitute the core audience, but all
historians, economists, public policymakers, and political scientists should
find the books in this series of at least general interest.
Format
The series will consist of scholarly monographs published in hardback and no
more than 256 pages in length.
Editor
Robert E. Wright is clinical associate professor of economics at the
Stern School of Business, New York University. In addition to editing three
series of primary source documents for Pickering & Chatto,
History of
Corporate Finance (2003), History of Corporate
Governance (2004), and The US National Debt
(2005), Wright has authored or co-authored 10 books,
including Financial Founding Fathers (2006) and One Nation Under Debt (2008). Though an historian by training,
Wright has published numerous articles for economic and business journals
like the American Economic Review, Barron's, and FT Banker.
Editorial Guidelines
Pickering & Chatto’s financial history
monograph series seeks to publish high-quality academic monographs written in
English related to any aspect of the financial history of any place,
industry, or organization after about 1500. Festschriften, conference
proceedings, narrow organizational histories, and collections of essays will
not be considered. Doctoral dissertations will be considered, but authors
should expect to make considerable revisions before acceptance. Titles in the
series will not exceed 256 printed pages or approximately 100,000 words.
Longer manuscripts will be considered, but authors will be expected to edit
them to fit the series’ parameters.
Those interested in submitting their scholarly monograph for consideration
for inclusion in the series should submit a proposal to the series editor,
Robert E. Wright, who prefers to receive all materials via e-mail attachment
in text, pdf, Word, or WordPerfect formats at
rwright@stern.nyu.edu. Proposals may also be sent in hardcopy to
Wright’s attention at the Department of Economics, Stern School of
Business, New York University, Kaufman
Management Center,
44 West Fourth Street,
New York, NY 10012.
Those preferring the latter method are cautioned to include reference to the
Stern School and the Kaufman Management Center lest their materials miscarry
by being sent to NYU’s other economics department. They are also
cautioned that paper submissions will not be returned unless accompanied by
sufficient postage.
Proposals should provide sufficient information to allow the editor and
referees to decide if the work is a potential candidate for inclusion in the
series. That entails a working title, a brief description of the thesis,
evidence, and methodology, notice of competing works and intended audience,
academic rationale, and the author’s (authors’, editor’s,
editors’) qualifications for writing the book. Generally, proposals
will also include chapter summaries and a representative chapter. If
requested by the series editor, the full manuscript may be submitted in any
style (Chicago, MLA, etc.), but
authors of accepted books will be required to follow the series’ style
sheet when submitting the final version of the manuscript for copyediting and
typesetting.
Proposals or manuscripts that meet the acceptance of the series editor will
be sent out for peer review. After referee reports are obtained, the series
editor, in consultation with the publisher, will issue a contract, reject the
manuscript, or request that the author make specific revisions and resubmit.
Pickering & Chatto
will endeavor to publish accepted manuscripts as quickly as it can consistent
with its strong production values: acid free paper, stitched binding, 2 color
printed hardcovers, and demi
format. Competitive royalties will be paid. For additional details, contact
Wright via e-mail or browse the
publisher’s site.
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