This book demonstrates how finance is affected by key political and social forces and cultural norms, and shows how they have determined the progression, development, destruction and renewal of financial life in Europe, Russia and the United States

1. Introduction -- 2. Tin : the foundations of an industry -- 3. Tin and industrial capitalism, 1815-1918 -- 4. The problem with tin, 1919-1929 -- 5. The depression : initial responses, 1928-1930 -- 6. The formation of the International Tin Committee, 1927-1931 -- 7. Constructing the machinery...

British-German rivalry in Northern Europe revisited / Patrick Salmon -- Nordic trade cooperation in the 1930s / Sven-Olof Olsson -- why did Norwegian trade policy become more active in the interwar period? / Monica Vµrholm -- Effective protection, prices and GDP growth : tariffs in Finland...

chapter Introduction -- chapter 1 Dead gages, naked debentures -- chapter 2 Myths, stigmas and morality of “dirty sexy money” -- chapter 3 Metamorphosis: Materialism to capitalism -- chapter 4 World bankers: Ambivalences of modernity -- chapter 5 Capitalism is dead, long live capitalism? --...