Baring Brothers and the Birth of Modern Finance - adeshpande ![rw-book-cover|200x400](https://readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/media/reader/parsed_document_assets/183689391/rA61eXuVcWLY51WPe2qPXu-GRAaggHHfvFu510QC5AY-cove_nQe82bx.png) ## Metadata - Author: **adeshpande** - Full Title: Baring Brothers and the Birth of Modern Finance - Category: #articles - URL: https://readwise.io/reader/document_raw_content/183689391 ## Highlights - Th e years 1770–1815 put in place that clutch of marvels of the Industrial Revolution involving textiles, steam, patent protection, coal, machines and fac- tories that made Great Britain the fi rst nation in history to achieve sustained economic growth ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j06yvgdxb5fcmtcjv81bv697))