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By Gwyn Campbell, Alessandro Stanziani
January 20, 2016
This volume of essays contains case studies of debt bondage covering the impact of an expanding globalized economy, increased commercialization, colonial and post-colonial societies, and emerging economies....
By Jean F Crombois
January 20, 2016
As a businessman, financier, diplomat, minister, and first Managing Director of the IMF, Camille Gutt (1884–1971) was involved in all the important financial negotiations between the 1920s and the 1950s. Using Gutt’s personal archives as his starting point, Crombois examines the rise and fall of ...
Edited
By Patrice Baubeau, Anders Ogren
January 20, 2016
This collection of essays aims to form a focused, original and constructive approach to examining the question of convergence and divergence in Europe....
By Alessandro Stanziani
January 20, 2016
Filling a significant gap in the historiography, the essays in this volume show that debt slavery has played a crucial role in the economic history of numerous societies which continues even today....
By Kurt e von Mettenheim
January 20, 2016
This study is the first in a decade to provide an overview of banking in Brazil. It is argued that the big three federal banks have long provided essential policy alternatives and, since the liberalization of the industry in the 1990s, have realized competitive advantages over private and foreign ...
Edited
By Elisabeth Paulet
January 20, 2016
Based on both theoretical and empirical approaches, the essays in this volume emphasise the role of ethics in a globalized economy....
By James R Karmel
January 20, 2016
Provides a historical perspective for understanding the exponential growth of casinos in the United States since 1990, by telling the story of Atlantic City, New Jersey since the 1970s. This work uses oral history to focus on the human stories of the region in addition to the broader story of ...
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By Fausto Piola Caselli
January 20, 2016
Contains essays by historians of economic and financial history. It illuminates the relationships between government indebtedness and the development of financial markets in Europe from the late Middle Ages to the late twentieth century....
By Ranald C Michie
January 20, 2016
This is an engaging study of the place occupied by the City of London within British cultural life during the Victorian and Edwardian periods. Michie uses both literary and popular novels to examine socio-economic representations during this period....
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By John H Munro
January 20, 2016
The papers in this edited volume discuss key elements of monetarism, including coin denominations, the role of bullion and case studies of substitute moneys....
By Carol M Connell
January 20, 2016
Focusing on Fritz Machlup, Connell presents the story of the Bellagio Group and its contribution to modern finance. Initiated by Machlup the Bellagio Group was made up of thirty-two non-government academic economists. During the years between 1964 and 1977 the Group met eighteen times and made a ...
By Richard Holcombe Kilbourne Jr
January 20, 2016
Offers the study of Antebellum southern slavery and the credit system. This work explains how the Bank of the United States supported the government's and the nation's credit abroad by providing seemingly limitless credit facilities to southern planters, especially in the territories along the ...