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  • Centres and Peripheries in Banking

    The Historical Development of Financial Markets

    Series series Studies in Banking and Financial History
    This volume presents a broad investigation into the relationship between the centre and the periphery in banking. Focusing on the historical development of financial markets, from their emergence in the early modern period to today's global financial and capital markets, the chapters investigate how local, national and international relationships have affected and helped shape the banking industry ... Read more

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  • A Financial History of Western Europe

    Series series Economic History
    This is the first history of finance - broadly defined to include money, banking, capital markets, public and private finance, international transfers etc. - that covers Western Europe (with an occasional glance at the western hemisphere) and half a millennium.Charles Kindleberger highlights the development of financial institutions to meet emerging needs, and the similarities and contrasts in the ... Read more

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  • The Euro and the Battle of Ideas

    How philosophical differences between Eurozone nations led to the Euro crisis—and where to go from hereWhy is Europe's great monetary endeavor, the Euro, in trouble? A string of economic difficulties in Greece, Ireland, Spain, Italy, and other Eurozone nations has left observers wondering whether the currency union can survive. In this book, Markus Brunnermeier, Harold James, and Jean-Pierre ... Read more

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  • War and Gold

    A Five-Hundred-Year History of Empires, Adventures, and Debt

    The world was wild for gold. After discovering the Americas, and under pressure to defend their vast dominion, the Habsburgs of Spain promoted gold and silver exploration in the New World with ruthless urgency. But, the great influx of wealth brought home by plundering conquistadors couldn't compensate for the Spanish government's extraordinary military spending, which would eventually bankrupt ... Read more

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  • Manias, Panics, and Crashes

    A History of Financial Crises

    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    In the Eighth Edition of this classic text on the financial history of bubbles and crashes, Robert McCauley joins with Robert Aliber in building on Charles Kindleberger's renowned work. McCauley draws on his central banking experience to introduce new chapters on cryptocurrency and the United States as the 21st Century global lender of last resort. He also updates the book's coverage of the recent ... Read more

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  • A Concise History of International Finance

    From Babylon to Bernanke

    by Larry Neal ...
    Series series New Approaches to Economic and Social History
    Ever since the financial crisis of 2008, doubts have been raised about the future of capitalism. In this broad-ranging survey of financial capitalism from antiquity to the present, Larry Neal reveals the ways in which the financial innovations throughout history have increased trade and prosperity as well as improving standards of living. These innovations have, however, all too often led to ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Banking and Financial History

    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The financial crisis of 2008 aroused widespread interest in banking and financial history among policy makers, academics, journalists, and even bankers, in addition to the wider public. References in the press to the term 'Great Depression' spiked after the failure of Lehman Brothers in November 2008, with similar surges in references to 'economic history' at various times during the financial ... Read more

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  • The Hidden Tyranny of our Money

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  • Formalization of Banking Supervision

    19th–20th Centuries

    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
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