"Davies's book examines the financial panics of 1873, considering both the financial speculations born of exuberance that led to these panics and the interpretative speculations born of the crises, and exploring what this in turn reveals about contemporary notions of the world economy and...

While the utility of assessing past research is widely recognised, few studies have focused on the funding body as the unit of evaluation. This study focused on individual funding bodies in one field of research, malaria: the results are presented of a survey of both the international financial...