1st Edition

Economic Crises and Global Politics in the 20th Century

Edited By Alexander Nützenadel, Cornelius Torp Copyright 2014
200 Pages
by Routledge

194 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

This book analyses the history of economic crises from the angle of international politics and its transformation throughout the 20 th century. While political and economic debates in the wake of the present financial crisis are revolving around the question of how to create effective forms of global governance, historians have discovered a long tradition of international economic regulation... Read more

1. Introduction Alexander Nützenadel and Cornelius Torp

2. Crises and policy responses within the political trilemma: Europe, 1929 – 36 and 2008 – 11 Nikolaus Wolf

3. Public debt and financial crises in the twentieth century Moritz Schularick

4. What do we need to bring about a financial crisis? A long-term look at the development of banking systems, money supply and crises 1850 – 2010 Jyrki Johannes Lessig

5. Financial crises and the balance of power in international finance, 1890 – 2010 Youssef Cassis

6. The German transfer problem, 1920 – 33: a sovereign-debt perspective Albrecht Ritschl

7. Economic crises in the ASEAN area: types and responses Vincent Houben

8. Crying on Lombard Street: fixing sovereign defaults in the 1890s Juan H. Flores

9. The crisis before the crisis: the ‘problems of modern society’ and the OECD, 1968 – 74 Matthias Schmelzer

10. Finance is History! Harold James

Biography

Alexander Nützenadel is Professor of Social and Economic History at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany.

Cornelius Torp teaches history at Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. In the last years, he has been Research Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, and the Freiburg Centre for Advanced Studies.