The paper examines political resentments and backlashes in historical episodes of globalization in terms of discussions of the morality of rising inequalities of income and wealth. It investigates the link between this discussion and a different interest-based political system that prevails in...

"The eminent economic historian Harold James presents a new perspective on financial crises, dividing them into "good" crises, which ultimately expand markets and globalization, and "bad" crises, which result in a smaller, less prosperous world. Examining seven turning points in financial...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Maps -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: The Familiarity of Capitalism -- Part I. The Age of the Individual -- Chapter 1 The Wendels and the French State -- Chapter 2 The Pioneer in German History -- Chapter 3 The Industrial Origins of the Falcks -- Part II....