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  • General and Periodic Crises of Overproduction

    by Jean Lescure ...
    Series Book 2 - Anthem Other Canon Economics
    Jean Lescure’s two-volume General and Periodic Crises of Overproduction is a pioneering study of the causes and consequences of industrial crises in capitalist economies in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The author, who held doctorates in political economy and law, is most remembered as a founder of the French historical school and a staunch advocate of empiricism in the economic ... Read more

    $76.99 CAD

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    by Robert Z. Aliber, Charles P. Kindleberger, Robert N. McCauley ...
    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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  • Golden Fetters : The Gold Standard and the Great Depression, 1919-1939

    The Gold Standard and the Great Depression, 1919-1939

    by Barry Eichengreen ...
    Series series NBER Series on Long-term Factors in Economic Development
    This book offers a reassessment of the international monetary problems that led to the global economic crisis of the 1930s. It explores the connections between the gold standard--the framework regulating international monetary affairs until 1931--and the Great Depression that broke out in 1929. Eichengreen shows how economic policies, in conjunction with the imbalances created by World War I, gave ... Read more

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  • The Euro and the Battle of Ideas

    by Markus K. Brunnermeier, Harold James, Jean-Pierre Landau ...
    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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  • The Theory of Economic Integration (Routledge Revivals)

    by Bela Balassa ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1962, The Theory of Economic Integration provides an excellent exposition of a complex and far-reaching topic. Professor Balassa has been remarkably successful in covering so much ground with such care and balance, in a treatment which is neither in any way abstruse nor unnecessarily technical. His book will interest economists in Europe by reason of its subject and treatment, ... Read more

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  • Seven Crashes

    The Economic Crises That Shaped Globalization

    by Harold James ...
    A leading economic historian presents a new history of financial crises, showing how some led to greater globalization while others kept nations apartThe eminent economic historian Harold James presents a new perspective on financial crises, dividing them into "good" crises, which ultimately expand markets and globalization, and "bad" crises, which result in a smaller, less prosperous world. ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • Making the European Monetary Union

    by Harold James ...
    Europe’s financial crisis cannot be blamed on the Euro, Harold James contends in this probing exploration of the whys, whens, whos, and what-ifs of European monetary union. The current crisis goes deeper, to a series of problems that were debated but not resolved at the time of the Euro’s invention.Since the 1960s, Europeans had been looking for a way to address two conundrums simultaneously: the ... Read more

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  • The End of Globalization

    Lessons from the Great Depression

    by Harold James ...
    "Globalization" is here. Signified by an increasingly close economic interconnection that has led to profound political and social change around the world, the process seems irreversible. In this book, however, Harold James provides a sobering historical perspective, exploring the circumstances in which the globally integrated world of an earlier era broke down under the pressure of unexpected ... Read more

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  • Formalization of Banking Supervision

    19th–20th Centuries

    by Eiji Hotori, Mikael Wendschlag, Thibaud Giddey ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This open access book is the first attempt to elaborate the formalization phase of banking supervision in eight developed countries—USA, Japan, Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, France, and UK. This innovative study in the field of banking supervision history identifies why national histories of banking supervision share similarities, but also remain different and are heavily path dependent. ... Read more

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    Sovereign Lending, Old and New

    by Quentin Bruneau ...
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  • The Brussels I Regulation Recast

    by Andrew Dickinson, Eva Lein ...
    The Brussels I Regulation has undergone a lengthy review process, resulting in Regulation (EU) 1215/2012 of 12 December 2012 on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters (recast). The provisions of the new Regulation apply from 10 January 2015. This work, written by a number of leading experts on the subject, provides a commentary on the Recast ... Read more

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