Bøker av Harold James

This book presents a new history of economic crises, looking at seven crashes over the past two hundred years, showing how some pushed markets in the direction of more cross-border integration of labor, goods, and capital markets while others prompted substantial deglobalization.

A timely call for recovering the true meanings of the nineteenth-century terms that are hobbling current political debates

These papers were originally given at a conference organized by the Society for European Business History. They reflect the degree of interest and even urgency in the investigation of the involvement of business corporations and of individual businessmen in the politics of the 1930s and 1940s.

"The conception of this volume had its origin in the Conference 'Responding to Crises in the Global Financial Environment - Risk Management and Regulation,' that took place in 2010 in Brussels at the National Bank of Belgium, and that was organized by the European Association for Banking and Financial History (EABH)"--Page vi