Banking on the State: The Financial Foundations of Lebanon (Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures) - Softcover

Safieddine, Hicham

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1503609677 ISBN 13: 9781503609679

Verlag: Stanford University Press, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

In 1943, Lebanon gained its formal political independence from France; only after two more decades did the country finally establish a national central bank. Inaugurated on April 1, 1964, the Banque du Liban (BDL) was billed by Lebanese authorities as the nation's primary symbol of economic sovereignty and as the last step towards full independence. In the local press, it was described as a means of projecting state power and enhancing national pride. Yet the history of its founding―stretching from its Ottoman origins in mid-nineteenth century up until the mid-twentieth―tells a different, more complex story.

Banking on the State reveals how the financial foundations of Lebanon were shaped by the history of the standardization of economic practices and financial regimes within the decolonizing world. The system of central banking that emerged was the product of a complex interaction of war, economic policies, international financial regimes, post-colonial state-building, global currents of technocratic knowledge, and private business interests. It served rather than challenged the interests of an oligarchy of local bankers. As Hicham Safieddine shows, the set of arrangements that governed the central bank thus was dictated by dynamics of political power and financial profit more than market forces, national interest or economic sovereignty.

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Hicham Safieddine is Lecturer in the History of the Modern Middle East at King's College London.

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• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1503609677
• ISBN 13: 9781503609679
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272
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