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  • International Economic Relations since 1945

    by Catherine R. Schenk ...
    Series series The Making of the Contemporary World
    This second edition has been updated to include an assessment of economic relations up to the COVID-19 pandemic. It focuses on three main threads that tie national economies together: flows of goods, of people and of finance.Since the end of the Second World War, the international economy transformed from a tightly controlled trading system to the financial globalization of the late 20th century. ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Banking and Financial History

    Edited by Youssef Cassis, Catherine R. Schenk, Richard S. Grossman ...
    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

    $39.99 CAD

  • Hong Kong as an International Financial Centre

    Emergence and Development, 1945-1965

    by Dr Catherine Schenk ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia
    Based on previously unpublished archival records, this book studies the origins of Hong Kong's post war rise to global prominence. It explores the expansion of the gold market, stock market, banking system, foreign exchange market, and insurance in the years 1945-1965. This book makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the developme ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Deutsche Bank: The Global Hausbank, 1870 – 2020

    by Werner Plumpe, Alexander Nützenadel, Catherine Schenk ...
    A comprehensive history of one of the major players in the world of international finance.Over the course of its 150-year history, Deutsche Bank has established itself as a major player in the world of international finance, but has also been confronted by numerous challenges that have changed the face of Europe – from two world wars, to the rise and subsequent fall of communism.In this major work ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Remembering and Learning from Financial Crises

    Edited by Youssef Cassis, Catherine R. Schenk ...
    The chapters in this book reflect on people's relationships with past financial crises - from public opinion to business leaders and policy makers. In connection with financial crises, Remembering and Learning from Financial Crises addresses three fundamental questions: first, are financial crises remembered, and if so how? Second, have lessons been drawn from past financial crises? And third, ... Read more

    $90.99 CAD

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    by Susan Strange ...
    Originally released by Basil Blackwell in 1986, and then re-released by Manchester University Press in 1998, Casino capitalism is a cutting-edge discussion of international financial markets, the way they behave and the power they wield. It examines money's power for good as well as its terrible disruptive, destructive power for evil. Money is seen as being far too important to leave to bankers ... Read more

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  • Mad money

    with an introduction by Benjamin J. Cohen

    by Susan Strange ...
    The follow-up to Casino capitalism, this is another classic text, and the last book written by Susan Strange. It builds on the previous work, discussing the weak points of a financial system driven by volatile markets rather than by governments. ... Read more

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  • The Creation and Destruction of Value

    The Globalization Cycle

    by Harold James ...
    Harold James examines the vulnerability and fragility of processes of globalization, both historically and in the present. This book applies lessons from past breakdowns of globalization—above all in the Great Depression—to show how financial crises provoke backlashes against global integration: against the mobility of capital or goods, but also against flows of migration. By a parallel ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • When the Money Runs Out

    The End of Western Affluence

    by Stephen D. King ...
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  • Economic Crises and Global Politics in the 20th Century

    Edited by Alexander Nützenadel, Cornelius Torp ...
    This book analyses the history of economic crises from the angle of international politics and its transformation throughout the 20th century. While political and economic debates in the wake of the present financial crisis are revolving around the question of how to create effective forms of global governance, historians have discovered a long tradition of international economic regulation that ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • History and Financial Crisis

    Lessons from the 20th century

    Edited by Christopher Kobrak, Mira Wilkins ...
    One striking weaknesses of our financial architecture, which helped bring on and perhaps deepen the Panic of 2008, is an inadequate appreciation of the past. Information about how the system functioned and the reliability of organizations and institutional controls were drawn from a relatively narrow group of recent examples. History and Financial Crisis: Lessons from the 20th Century is an ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD

  • Monetary and Banking History

    Essays in Honour of Forrest Capie

    Edited by Geoffrey Wood, Terence Mills, Nicholas Crafts ...
    Series series Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking
    Forrest Capie is an eminent economic historian who has published extensively on a wide range of topics, with an emphasis on banking and monetary history, particularly in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but also in other areas such as tariffs and the interwar economy. He is a former editor of the Economic History Review, one of the leading academic journals in this discipline.Under the ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD