Carlo Edoardo Altamura
Biographic Data
| ID | 5244624 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carlo Edoardo Altamura |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carlo Edoardo |
| FAMILY NAME | Altamura |
| SIGNATURE | ALTAMURA C E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7239-5695 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Friends in High Places? International Banks and the Argentinian Military Dictatorship
The presence of international banks in Argentina remained extremely stable throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. The situation changed dramatically after the military coup of 1976 as the number of international banks in the country rapidly increased from 15 in 1976 to 33 in 1982. The article will investigate the international financial relations of the last military junta by focusing on the relations of the regime with international commercial …
Latin America in turbulent times
Commercial Banking from Oil Crisis to Debt Crisis
In January 1998, the British weekly The Economist called the British bank Lloyds a “money machine”. Such an outcome was far from inevitable for a bank that had been one of the hardest hit victims of the 1982 sovereign debt crisis, when most developing countries found themselves unable to repay debts accumulated over the course of the 1970s. Having overextended itself in the developing world, it took Lloyds more than a decade to return to profitab…
Exclusionary Regimes, Financial Corporations, and Human Rights Activism in the UK, 1973–92
This paper examines the two British civic campaigns, Chile Solidarity Campaign and End Loans to Southern Africa, to investigate the role of financial sanctions on authoritarian regimes to suggest the limits of human rights movements in the late twentieth century. While they not only publicised the financial ties between authoritarian regimes and British banks but also garnered popular support, the campaigns had relatively little success owing to …
Friends or foes? Brazil, the IMF and the World Bank, 1961–1967
Between June 1959 and March 1964, the democratic governments of Brazilian presidents Juscelino Kubitschek (January 1956 – January 1961), Janio Quadros (January–August 1961), Ranieri Mazzilli (August–September 1961) and João ‘Jango’ Goulart (September 1961 – April 1964) received no support from the World Bank (WB), which refused to fund even a single new project during this period. During this same period, and, more specifically, between July 1958…
Global Banks and Latin American Dictators, 1974–1982
This article examines the relationship between international commercial banks and military regimes in South America. The focus is on how military regimes in the Southern Cone of Latin America and Brazil in the 1970s became heavily dependent on foreign capital provided by international banks based in Britain and France. It makes use of previously unavailable archival evidence to examine the interactions between international banks and South Americ…
Finance, financiers and financial centres
This special issue celebrates the career of Youssef Cassis. The introduction will outline his major contributions from his initial work on social characteristics of the financiers of the City of London, and their relationship with landed aristocrats and industry, through his analysis of a succession of financial centres, the comparative study of big business, the relationship between finance and politics, to his new project on the memory of finan…
Politics, International Banking, and the Debt Crisis of 1982
How does politics affect private international lending? This article highlights the relationship between international banks, their home governments, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and international regulators during the years that preceded the debt crisis of 1982. Based on new archival evidence from different case studies, we find that the decisions of commercial banks to lend were largely based on the home governments’ preferences, comp…
The Paradox of the 1970s
The Paradox of the 1970s: The Renaissance of International Banking and the Rise of Public Debt The 1970s is a paradoxical decade. On the one hand, it marked the gradual demise of the industrial society and the end of the «Golden Age» of capitalism. On the other hand, the decade saw the renaissance of international banking and finance after almost half a century of retreat, thanks to the explosive growth of the Eurodollar market. International ban…
Wall streeters
The aim of this book by Edward Morris, Professor of Finance at Lindenwood University and former vice president of the investment bank Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., is to ‘make sense of the world of high
Politics, International Banking, and the Debt Crisis of 1982
How does politics affect private international lending? This article highlights the relationship between international banks, their home governments, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and international regulators during the years that preceded the debt crisis of 1982. Based on new archival evidence from different case studies, we find that the decisions of commercial banks to lend were largely based on the home governments’ preferences, comp…
The Paradox of the 1970s
The Paradox of the 1970s: The Renaissance of International Banking and the Rise of Public Debt The 1970s is a paradoxical decade. On the one hand, it marked the gradual demise of the industrial society and the end of the «Golden Age» of capitalism. On the other hand, the decade saw the renaissance of international banking and finance after almost half a century of retreat, thanks to the explosive growth of the Eurodollar market. International ban…
Global Banks and Latin American Dictators, 1974–1982
This article examines the relationship between international commercial banks and military regimes in South America. The focus is on how military regimes in the Southern Cone of Latin America and Brazil in the 1970s became heavily dependent on foreign capital provided by international banks based in Britain and France. It makes use of previously unavailable archival evidence to examine the interactions between international banks and South Americ…
Friends in High Places? International Banks and the Argentinian Military Dictatorship
The presence of international banks in Argentina remained extremely stable throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. The situation changed dramatically after the military coup of 1976 as the number of international banks in the country rapidly increased from 15 in 1976 to 33 in 1982. The article will investigate the international financial relations of the last military junta by focusing on the relations of the regime with international commercial …
Exclusionary Regimes, Financial Corporations, and Human Rights Activism in the UK, 1973–92
This paper examines the two British civic campaigns, Chile Solidarity Campaign and End Loans to Southern Africa, to investigate the role of financial sanctions on authoritarian regimes to suggest the limits of human rights movements in the late twentieth century. While they not only publicised the financial ties between authoritarian regimes and British banks but also garnered popular support, the campaigns had relatively little success owing to …
The Paradox of the 1970s
The Paradox of the 1970s: The Renaissance of International Banking and the Rise of Public Debt The 1970s is a paradoxical decade. On the one hand, it marked the gradual demise of the industrial society and the end of the «Golden Age» of capitalism. On the other hand, the decade saw the renaissance of international banking and finance after almost half a century of retreat, thanks to the explosive growth of the Eurodollar market. International ban…
Wall streeters
The aim of this book by Edward Morris, Professor of Finance at Lindenwood University and former vice president of the investment bank Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., is to ‘make sense of the world of high
Finance, financiers and financial centres
This special issue celebrates the career of Youssef Cassis. The introduction will outline his major contributions from his initial work on social characteristics of the financiers of the City of London, and their relationship with landed aristocrats and industry, through his analysis of a succession of financial centres, the comparative study of big business, the relationship between finance and politics, to his new project on the memory of finan…
Politics, International Banking, and the Debt Crisis of 1982
How does politics affect private international lending? This article highlights the relationship between international banks, their home governments, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and international regulators during the years that preceded the debt crisis of 1982. Based on new archival evidence from different case studies, we find that the decisions of commercial banks to lend were largely based on the home governments’ preferences, comp…
Friends or foes? Brazil, the IMF and the World Bank, 1961–1967
Between June 1959 and March 1964, the democratic governments of Brazilian presidents Juscelino Kubitschek (January 1956 – January 1961), Janio Quadros (January–August 1961), Ranieri Mazzilli (August–September 1961) and João ‘Jango’ Goulart (September 1961 – April 1964) received no support from the World Bank (WB), which refused to fund even a single new project during this period. During this same period, and, more specifically, between July 1958…
Global Banks and Latin American Dictators, 1974–1982
This article examines the relationship between international commercial banks and military regimes in South America. The focus is on how military regimes in the Southern Cone of Latin America and Brazil in the 1970s became heavily dependent on foreign capital provided by international banks based in Britain and France. It makes use of previously unavailable archival evidence to examine the interactions between international banks and South Americ…
Commercial Banking from Oil Crisis to Debt Crisis
In January 1998, the British weekly The Economist called the British bank Lloyds a “money machine”. Such an outcome was far from inevitable for a bank that had been one of the hardest hit victims of the 1982 sovereign debt crisis, when most developing countries found themselves unable to repay debts accumulated over the course of the 1970s. Having overextended itself in the developing world, it took Lloyds more than a decade to return to profitab…
Exclusionary Regimes, Financial Corporations, and Human Rights Activism in the UK, 1973–92
This paper examines the two British civic campaigns, Chile Solidarity Campaign and End Loans to Southern Africa, to investigate the role of financial sanctions on authoritarian regimes to suggest the limits of human rights movements in the late twentieth century. While they not only publicised the financial ties between authoritarian regimes and British banks but also garnered popular support, the campaigns had relatively little success owing to …
Friends in High Places? International Banks and the Argentinian Military Dictatorship
The presence of international banks in Argentina remained extremely stable throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. The situation changed dramatically after the military coup of 1976 as the number of international banks in the country rapidly increased from 15 in 1976 to 33 in 1982. The article will investigate the international financial relations of the last military junta by focusing on the relations of the regime with international commercial …
Latin America in turbulent times
Economics (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Finance (7 works) · Financial system (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Democracy (5 works) · Debt (4 works) · Finance (4 works) · Financial crisis (4 works)