International Financial History In The Twentieth Century

Author : Marc Flandreau,Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich,Harold James
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521819954

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International Financial History in the Twentieth Century by Marc Flandreau,Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich,Harold James Pdf

The essays, written by leading experts, examine the history of the international financial system in terms of the debate about globalization and its limits. In the nineteenth century, international markets existed without international institutions. A response to the problems of capital flows came in the form of attempts to regulate national capital markets (for instance through the establishment of central banks). In the inter-war years, there were (largely unsuccessful) attempts at designing a genuine international trade and monetary system; and at the same time (coincidentally) the system collapsed. In the post-1945 era, the intended design effort was infinitely more successful. The development of large international capital markets since the 1960s, however, increasingly frustrated attempts at international control. The emphasis has shifted in consequence to debates about increasing the transparency and effectiveness of markets; but these are exactly the issues that already dominated the nineteenth-century discussions.

Author : Harold James,Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich,Marc Flandreau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : International economic integration
ISBN : OCLC:848611270

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International Financial History in the Twentieth Century by Harold James,Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich,Marc Flandreau Pdf

Author : Ivan T. Berend
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139452649

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An Economic History of Twentieth-Century Europe by Ivan T. Berend Pdf

A major history of economic regimes and economic performance throughout the twentieth century. Ivan T. Berend looks at the historic development of the twentieth-century European economy, examining both its failures and its successes in responding to the challenges of this crisis-ridden and troubled but highly successful age. The book surveys the European economy's chronological development, the main factors of economic growth, and the various economic regimes that were invented and introduced in Europe during the twentieth century. Professor Berend shows how the vast disparity between the European regions that had characterized earlier periods gradually began to disappear during the course of the twentieth century as more and more countries reached a more or less similar level of economic development. This accessible book will be required reading for students in European economic history, economics, and modern European history.

Author : Youssef Cassis,Eric Bussière
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780191533471

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London and Paris as International Financial Centres in the Twentieth Century by Youssef Cassis,Eric Bussière Pdf

London and Paris, the world's two leading financial centres in the nineteenth century, experienced differing fortunes during the twentieth century. While London remained an international financial centre, Paris' influence declined. Yet over the last twenty years deregulation, internationalization, and the advent of the single currency have reactivated their competition in ways reminiscent of their old rivalry before the First World War. This book provides a long-term perspective on the development of each centre, with special attention devoted to the pre-1914 years and to the last decades of the twentieth century, in order to contrast these two eras of globalization. The chapters include both archive-based and synthetic surveys and are written by the leading specialists of the field. This comparison between Europe's two leading capital cities will also provide new insights into two important subjects: the political economy of Britain and France in the twentieth century, and the history of international financial centres. As much as a comparison between London and Paris as international financial centres, this book is an Anglo-French comparison; in other words, it considers, through the prism of finance, several aspects of the two countries' economic, business, social, and political histories. It includes contributions from leading banking, financial, and economic historians, and will be of interest to academics, researchers, and students of Financial and Economic History, and the role of London and Paris in particular.

Author : Giovanni Arrighi
Publisher : Verso
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Capitalism
ISBN : 1859840159

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The Long Twentieth Century by Giovanni Arrighi Pdf

Winner of the American Sociological Association PEWS Award (1995) for Distinguished Scholarship The Long Twentieth Century traces the epochal shifts in the relationship between capital accumulation and state formation over a 700-year period. Giovanni Arrighi masterfully synthesizes social theory, comparative history and historical narrative in this account of the structures and agencies which have shaped the course of world history over the millennium. Borrowing from Braudel, Arrighi argues that the history of capitalism has unfolded as a succession of "long centuries"—ages during which a hegemonic power deploying a novel combination of economic and political networks secured control over an expanding world-economic space. The modest beginnings, rise and violent unravel-ing of the links forged between capital, state power, and geopolitics by hegemonic classes and states are explored with dramatic intensity. From this perspective, Arrighi explains the changing fortunes of Florentine, Venetian, Genoese, Dutch, English, and finally American capitalism. The book concludes with an examination of the forces which have shaped and are now poised to undermine America's world power.

Author : Jeffry A. Frieden
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 807 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781324004202

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Global Capitalism by Jeffry A. Frieden Pdf

"One of the most comprehensive histories of modern capitalism yet written." —Michael Hirsh, New York Times An authoritative, insightful, and highly readable history of the twentieth-century global economy, updated with a new chapter on the early decades of the new century. Global Capitalism guides the reader from the globalization of the early twentieth century and its swift collapse in the crises of 1914–45, to the return to global integration at the end of the century, and the subsequent retreat in the wake of the financial crisis of 2008.

Author : E. Cardenas,J. Ocampo,R. Thorp
Publisher : Springer
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230595682

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An Economic History of Twentieth-Century Latin America by E. Cardenas,J. Ocampo,R. Thorp Pdf

In the 1990s, 'protection', 'import substitution' and 'intervention' have become dirty words, part of the 'leyenda negra' of Latin America development in the postwar period. This book attempts a fresh look at the controversial years between the end of the Second World War and the point when, at varying dates in different countries, a discontinuity occurs in which the postwar 'style of development' ceased to play a central role in the economic evolution of the region. The analysis is based on seven case studies covering eleven countries.

Author : Youssef Cassis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Banks and banking
ISBN : 9780521845359

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Capitals of Capital by Youssef Cassis Pdf

`...useful reading for anyone interested in the antecedents of today's vibrant international financial markets.'

Author : J. Bradford DeLong
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780465023363

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Slouching Towards Utopia by J. Bradford DeLong Pdf

An instant New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller from one of the world’s leading economists, offering a grand narrative of the century that made us richer than ever, but left us unsatisfied “A magisterial history.”—​Paul Krugman Named a Best Book of 2022 by Financial Times * Economist * Fast Company Before 1870, humanity lived in dire poverty, with a slow crawl of invention offset by a growing population. Then came a great shift: invention sprinted forward, doubling our technological capabilities each generation and utterly transforming the economy again and again. Our ancestors would have presumed we would have used such powers to build utopia. But it was not so. When 1870–2010 ended, the world instead saw global warming; economic depression, uncertainty, and inequality; and broad rejection of the status quo. Economist Brad DeLong’s Slouching Towards Utopia tells the story of how this unprecedented explosion of material wealth occurred, how it transformed the globe, and why it failed to deliver us to utopia. Of remarkable breadth and ambition, it reveals the last century to have been less a march of progress than a slouch in the right direction.

Author : John Singleton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781139495202

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Central Banking in the Twentieth Century by John Singleton Pdf

Central banks are powerful but poorly understood organisations. In 1900 the Bank of Japan was the only central bank to exist outside Europe but over the past century central banking has proliferated. John Singleton here explains how central banks and the profession of central banking have evolved and spread across the globe during this period. He shows that the central banking world has experienced two revolutions in thinking and practice, the first after the depression of the early 1930s, and the second in response to the high inflation of the 1970s and 1980s. In addition, the central banking profession has changed radically. In 1900 the professional central banker was a specialised type of banker, whereas today he or she must also be a sophisticated economist and a public official. Understanding these changes is essential to explaining the role of central banks during the recent global financial crisis.

Author : Christopher Kobrak,Mira Wilkins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317981640

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History and Financial Crisis by Christopher Kobrak,Mira Wilkins Pdf

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 attempt to broaden the range of historical sources used by policy makers to understand and treat financial crises. Many recent discussions of the 2008 panic and the economic turmoil have found the situation to either be unprecedented or greatly similar to that of 1931. However, the book's wide range of contributors suggest that the economic crisis of 2008 cannot be categorised in this way. This book was originally published as a special issue of Business History.

Author : Edwin Green,John Lampe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351947473

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Crisis and Renewal in Twentieth Century Banking by Edwin Green,John Lampe Pdf

Crisis and Renewal in Twentieth Century Banking explores the behaviour of banks at times of war, revolution, civil war, social turmoil, and reconstruction. Analysing the history and archives of banks, it discovers examples of how banking is affected by political and social upheavals; how banks may influence the outcome of such events; how banking has recovered from periods of intense political and social stress; and how the archives of banks provide remarkable testimony to events in the wider world. By examining the setting of different banking markets in the last century, up to and including the transformation of Eastern and South Eastern Europe in the 1990s, this book marks a new direction for international discussion and research. Contributors include senior historians and archivists from Europe and the United States. Contributions include papers on Russia and foreign banks, 1917-30; depression and crisis in Central Europe in the 1930s; Civil War in Spain; post-war reconstruction in banking in Germany and the Far East; and crisis and renewal in South East Europe. The papers published in this collection were first presented at the twelfth Annual Conference of the European Association for Banking History, held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in May 2001, and hosted by the Bank of Slovenia and the Nova Ljubljanska Banka.

Author : Aubrey Solomon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780810842441

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Twentieth Century-Fox by Aubrey Solomon Pdf

In this first paperback edition, Solomon, a screenwriter/story editor who co-authored The Films of Twentieth-Century Fox and produced the television show That's Hollywood, reruns his history of management in the boom and bust years of this major motion picture company. Includes a photo of founder/producer Darryl F. Zanuck; the introduction to the original edition; and data on the studio's hit movies, film rentals, and production costs. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Alexander Nützenadel,Cornelius Torp
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134928644

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Economic Crises and Global Politics in the 20th Century by Alexander Nützenadel,Cornelius Torp Pdf

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 can be traced back to the late 19th century. In the global economy, sovereign defaults, banking crises and currency crashes have been recurrent phenomena. At the same time, alongside the growing globalization of commodity and capital markets, nation-states have introduced new forms of regulation both on the national and international level. The experience of economic crises has been an important driver behind numerous initiatives to foster global politics. The purpose of the book is to reconnect economic history with the perspectives of political economy and the history of international relations. It forms a dialogue between the disciplines that have been increasingly separated throughout the past decades. With first-rate economic historians and political economists writing for a wider audience, it simultaneously makes public debates and methods of recent cutting-edge research in economic history within a wider academic community. This book was originally published as a special issue of the European Review of History.

Author : Andrés Solimano
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108485043

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A History of Big Recessions in the Long Twentieth Century by Andrés Solimano Pdf

Examines the array of financial crises, slumps, depressions and recessions that happened around the globe during the twentieth century.