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53 produkter
Seven Crashes
The Economic Crises That Shaped Globalization
Av Harold James
Inbunden, 2023
331 kr
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A leading economic historian presents a new history of financial crises, showing how some led to greater globalization while others kept nations apart “[A] fascinating book.”—Martin Wolf, Financial Times, “Best Books of 2023—Economics” The eminent economic historian Harold James presents a new …
Enterprise in the Period of Fascism in Europe
Häftad, 2017
765 kr
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The essays in this volume consider the involvement of business corporations and of individual businessmen in the politics of the 1930s and 1940s: in the move away from the market and also from democracy, towards state control and authoritarianism, including the massive intervention of the state in …
Value of Risk
Swiss Re and the History of Reinsurance
Av Tobias Straumann, David Gugerli m. fl.
E-bok, 2013
1492 kr
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Reinsurance is an invisible service industry which enables insurance companies to insure more risks and to make better use of their resources. Until recently, reinsurers were only known to a small minority outside the insurance community. Major disasters, especially those caused by natural …
The Value of Risk
Swiss Re and the History of Reinsurance
Av Peter Borscheid, David Gugerli m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
2183 kr
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Reinsurance is an invisible service industry which enables insurance companies to insure more risks and to make better use of their resources. Until recently, reinsurers were only known to a small minority outside the insurance community. Major disasters, especially those caused by natural …
War of Words
A Glossary of Globalization
Av Harold James
Inbunden, 2021
268 kr
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A timely call for recovering the true meanings of the nineteenth‑century terms that are hobbling current political debates “Masterful. . . . James cuts through the tangled terminological and conceptual jungle of modern globalist discourse . . . [with] fascinating discussions of the origins and …
Seven Crashes
The Economic Crises That Shaped Globalization
Av Harold James
E-bok, 2023
323 kr
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A leading economic historian presents a new history of financial crises, showing how some led to greater globalization while others kept nations apartThe eminent economic historian Harold James presents a new perspective on financial crises, dividing them into "good" crises, which ultimately expand …
Financial Innovation, Regulation and Crises in History
Av Harold James
Häftad, 2020
713 kr
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With contributions from world-renowned figures such as Niall Ferguson and Adair Turner, this volume investigates how financial institutions and markets have undergone or reacted to past pressures, and the regulatory responses that emerged as a result.
When the Wall Came Down
Reactions to German Unification
Häftad, 1992
758 kr
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When the Wall Came Down provides a wide-ranging compendium of responses in Germany and other countries to the events of 1989-90, and includes essays by Henry Kissinger, Vaclav Havel, Ralf Dahrendorf and Timothy Garton Ash.
The Deutsche Bank and the Nazi Economic War against the Jews
The Expropriation of Jewish-Owned Property
Av Harold James
Häftad, 2006
586 kr
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The Deutsche Bank, Germany's largest financial institution, played an important role in the expropriation of Jewish-owned enterprises during the Nazi dictatorship, both in the existing territories of Germany, and in the area seized by the German army during World War II. In this 2001 book Harold …
The Nazi Dictatorship and the Deutsche Bank
Av Harold James
Häftad, 2007
720 kr
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Examines the role of Deutsche Bank, Germany's largest commercial bank, during the Nazi dictatorship, and asks how the bank changed and accommodated to a transition from democracy and a market economy to dictatorship and a planned economy. Set against the background of the world depression and the …
International Financial History in the Twentieth Century
System and Anarchy
Av Marc Flandreau, Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
586 kr
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The essays, written by leading experts, examine the history of the international financial system in terms of the debate about globalization and its limits. In the nineteenth century, international markets existed without international institutions. A response to the problems of capital flows came …
The Role of Banks in the Interwar Economy
Av Harold James, Hekan Lindgren m. fl.
Inbunden, 1991
1610 kr
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Although international finance and banking has been the subject of much research and writing, the economic impact of banks on industrial structures and the relations between banking and industry in the twentieth century have remained a relatively unexplored area. This 1991 volume examines and …
The Role of Banks in the Interwar Economy
Av Harold James, Hekan Lindgren m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
586 kr
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Although international finance and banking has been the subject of much research and writing, the economic impact of banks on industrial structures and the relations between banking and industry in the twentieth century have remained a relatively unexplored area. This 1991 volume examines and …
The Deutsche Bank and the Nazi Economic War against the Jews
The Expropriation of Jewish-Owned Property
Av Harold James
Inbunden, 2001
1677 kr
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The Deutsche Bank, Germany's largest financial institution, played an important role in the expropriation of Jewish-owned enterprises during the Nazi dictatorship, both in the existing territories of Germany, and in the area seized by the German army during World War II. In this 2001 book Harold …
International Financial History in the Twentieth Century
System and Anarchy
Av Marc Flandreau, Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich m. fl.
Inbunden, 2003
905 kr
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The essays, written by leading experts, examine the history of the international financial system in terms of the debate about globalization and its limits. In the nineteenth century, international markets existed without international institutions. A response to the problems of capital flows came …
The Nazi Dictatorship and the Deutsche Bank
Av Harold James
Inbunden, 2004
1610 kr
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Examines the role of Deutsche Bank, Germany's largest commercial bank, during the Nazi dictatorship, and asks how the bank changed and accommodated to a transition from democracy and a market economy to dictatorship and a planned economy. Set against the background of the world depression and the …
End of Globalization
Lessons from the Great Depression
Av Harold James
Häftad, 2002
370 kr
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"Globalization" is here. Signified by an increasingly close economic interconnection that has led to profound political and social change around the world, the process seems irreversible. In this book, however, Harold James provides a sobering historical perspective, exploring the circumstances in …
Family Capitalism
Wendels, Haniels, Falcks, and the Continental European Model
Av Harold James
Inbunden, 2006
476 kr
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This history of three powerful family firms located in different European countries takes place over a period of more than two hundred years. The interplay and the changing social and legal arrangements of the families shaped the development of a European capitalism quite different from the …
Creation and Destruction of Value
The Globalization Cycle
Av Harold James
Häftad, 2012
323 kr
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Harold James examines the vulnerability and fragility of processes of globalization, both historically and in the present. This book applies lessons from past breakdowns of globalization—above all in the Great Depression—to show how financial crises provoke backlashes against global integration: …
Making the European Monetary Union
Av Harold James
Häftad, 2014
279 kr
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Europe’s financial crisis cannot be blamed on the Euro, Harold James contends in this probing exploration of the whys, whens, whos, and what-ifs of European monetary union. The current crisis goes deeper, to a series of problems that were debated but not resolved at the time of the Euro’s …
Roman Predicament
How the Rules of International Order Create the Politics of Empire
Av Harold James
Häftad, 2008
366 kr
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Modern America owes the Roman Empire for more than gladiator movies and the architecture of the nation's Capitol. It can also thank the ancient republic for some helpful lessons in globalization. So argues economic historian Harold James in this masterful work of intellectual history. The book …
Krupp
A History of the Legendary German Firm
Av Harold James
Inbunden, 2012
488 kr
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The history of Krupp is the history of modern Germany. No company symbolized the best and worst of that history more than the famous steel and arms maker. In this book, Harold James tells the story of the Krupp family and its industrial empire between the early nineteenth century and the present, …
Euro and the Battle of Ideas
Av Markus K. Brunnermeier, Harold James m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
313 kr
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Why is Europe's great monetary endeavor, the Euro, in trouble? A string of economic difficulties in Greece, Ireland, Spain, Italy, and other Eurozone nations has left observers wondering whether the currency union can survive. In this book, Markus Brunnermeier, Harold James, and Jean-Pierre Landau …
Euro and the Battle of Ideas
Av Markus K. Brunnermeier, Harold James m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
225 kr
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How philosophical differences between Eurozone nations led to the Euro crisis—and where to go from hereWhy is Europe’s great monetary endeavor, the Euro, in trouble? A string of economic difficulties in Eurozone nations has left observers wondering whether the currency union can survive. In this …
Enterprise in the Period of Fascism in Europe
Inbunden, 2002
2824 kr
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The essays in this volume consider the involvement of business corporations and of individual businessmen in the politics of the 1930s and 1940s: in the move away from the market and also from democracy, towards state control and authoritarianism, including the massive intervention of the state in …
Europe Contested
From the Kaiser to Brexit
Av Harold James
E-bok, 2019
1019 kr
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Europe Contested analyses the failures and achievements of an astonishing era of economic advance and political chaos, from the First World War up to the present day. Beginning with the Great War, the book goes on to examine connections between the self-destruction of liberal democracy, market …
Europe Contested
From the Kaiser to Brexit
Av Harold James
E-bok, 2019
1052 kr
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Europe Contested analyses the failures and achievements of an astonishing era of economic advance and political chaos, from the First World War up to the present day. Beginning with the Great War, the book goes on to examine connections between the self-destruction of liberal democracy, market …
The Złoty
A Polish Odyssey 1924-2024
Av Harold James, Marzenna James
Inbunden, 2026
1685 kr
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The Złoty draws on recently available Polish archival material from central banks and international institutions to show how long-lived debates about inflation have been central in Polish political history. It offers surprising revelations about the drama of the evacuation and legal treatment of …
The Złoty
A Polish Odyssey 1924-2024
Av Harold James, Marzenna James
Häftad, 2026
511 kr
Kommande
The Złoty draws on recently available Polish archival material from central banks and international institutions to show how long-lived debates about inflation have been central in Polish political history. It offers surprising revelations about the drama of the evacuation and legal treatment of …
Making a Modern Central Bank
The Bank of England 1979-2003
Av Harold James
Häftad, 2020
636 kr
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Making a Modern Central Bank examines a revolution in monetary and economic policy. This authoritative guide explores how the Bank of England shifted its traditional mechanisms to accommodate a newly internationalized financial and economic system. The Bank's transformation into a modern …
