that politics inevitably intrudes into bank regulation. Charles Calomiris and Stephen Haber combine political history and …Why are banking systems unstable in so many countries--but not in others? The United States has had twelve systemic … but have provided miniscule amounts of credit to business enterprises and households. Analyzing the political and banking …

Global hyperconnectivity and increased system integration have led to vast benefits, including worldwide growth in … incomes, education, innovation, and technology. But rapid globalization has also created concerns because the repercussions of … local events now cascade over national borders and the fallout of financial meltdowns and environmental disasters affects …

, either directly or indirectly, by government policy. Exchange rates are also central to the global economy, for they … profoundly influence all international economic activity. Despite the critical role of exchange rate policy, there are few … the politics of the gold standard, particularly in the United States, and he examines the political economy of European …

was supplanted by one between America and Germany. Volker Berghahn begins with the pre-1914 period and moves through the …While America’s relationship with Britain has often been deemed unique, especially during the two world wars when … Germany was a common enemy, the American business sector actually had a greater affinity with Germany for most of the …

financial crisis, a dysfunctional international monetary system, and U.S. policies have paradoxically strengthened the dollar … foreign financial capital locked up in dollar assets, including U.S. government securities, other countries now have a strong …, and the role of institutions like the International Monetary Fund—and offers new ideas for fixing the flawed monetary …

financial crisis, a dysfunctional international monetary system, and U.S. policies have paradoxically strengthened the dollar … foreign financial capital locked up in dollar assets, including U.S. government securities, other countries now have a strong …, and the role of institutions like the International Monetary Fund—and offers new ideas for fixing the flawed monetary …

way we define and measure national economies around the world: Gross Domestic Product. This entertaining and informative … nothing more than trying to accurately report the size of his country’s economy? The answers to all these questions lie in the … book tells the story of GDP, making sense of a statistic that appears constantly in the news, business, and politics, and …

1970s and the acceptance of the need for new policies by the political left. This edition includes a new foreword in which … the author addresses the relationship between intellectual history and the history of politics and policy. Fascinating … ascendancy of neoliberalism from the academy of interwar Europe to supremacy under Reagan and Thatcher and in the decades since …