What if no Rothchilds?

What if Mayer Rothchild died early and never started the Rothchilds as a famous financial family? What effect would this have had on the development of international financial and capitalism? Would someone else have stepped in to form the banking networks at around the same time, or would it put back economic development by decades?
 

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Its a nod to the conspiracy theories that say the Rothschilds run or help run the world.

But back to the real question, if not the Rothschilds than other family would feel the gap. They were essentually a revived version of the great Italian and and German banking families, like the Medici and the Fugger families. However, if the family that takes their place isn't Jewish, then we will have some interesting consequences. I know that the Rothschilds helped influence the British Declaration of Balfour, so without the Rothschilds, we might not see a Jewish homeland in Palestine, or at least one that didn't have any British support.
 
This is a good source on the rise of the Rothschild dynasty. While older, it has the virtue of pre-dating most conspiracy theorizing about the family, so it is a pretty straight-forward presentation of the facts on the matter.
 
One trivial thing: we might know Dorothy Parker by her maiden name, Dorothy Rothschild. So many people incorrectly assumed she was related to the famous Rothschilds and refused to hire her that she married a guy named Parker, basically for his name.
 
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