Stock prices from John Castaing's Course of exchange

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\neal\*.* Data concerning stock prices from John Castaing's Course of exchange, which appeared twice a week (on Tuesdays and Fridays) from 1698 throughout the following century. The data is particularly important for arguments concerning market efficiency, based on actual price movements, for the international market in credit, and for such discussions as the 'crowding out' thesis (that is, the relationship between war finance and the Industrial Revolution in England). The data was transferred in full from a tape supplied by the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, Ann Arbor, USA. The main publication which results from this material is Neal, L., The rise of financial capitalism. International capital markets in the age of reason (Cambridge, New York, Port Chester, Melbourne, Sydney, 1990). The data here supllied does not come in SAS transport mode, only as text and notes files.