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List of contents
1. Introduction Alexander Nützenadel and Cornelius Torp 2. Crises and policy responses within the political trilemma: Europe, 1929 – 36 and 2008 – 11 Nikolaus Wolf 3. Public debt and financial crises in the twentieth century Moritz Schularick 4. What do we need to bring about a financial crisis? A long-term look at the development of banking systems, money supply and crises 1850 – 2010 Jyrki Johannes Lessig 5. Financial crises and the balance of power in international finance, 1890 – 2010 Youssef Cassis 6. The German transfer problem, 1920 – 33: a sovereign-debt perspective Albrecht Ritschl 7. Economic crises in the ASEAN area: types and responses Vincent Houben 8. Crying on Lombard Street: fixing sovereign defaults in the 1890s Juan H. Flores 9. The crisis before the crisis: the ‘problems of modern society’ and the OECD, 1968 – 74 Matthias Schmelzer 10. Finance is History! Harold James
About the author
Alexander Nützenadel is Professor of Social and Economic History at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany.
Cornelius Torp teaches history at Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. In the last years, he has been Research Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, and the Freiburg Centre for Advanced Studies.
Summary
The book explores how economic and financial crises have transformed international politics in the age of globalization. this book was originally published as a special issue of the European Review of History.
