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Despite the 'return of financial crises' since the end of the Bretton Woods era, a new generation of bankers hardly had any experience or any memory of a previous systemic financial crisis. The events of summer 2007 prompted investors, CEOs, and regulators to...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-04-05
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The Classic Collection of Walter Bagehot is a comprehensive anthology of major works by Walter Bagehot, one of the most influential thinkers of the nineteenth century. This illustrated collection includes several of his most significant books, such as Lombard Street,...
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Fanela Publishing
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2026-04-02
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If you haven't followed the money, chances are you don't know the real story of America and its Revolution. Nothing gives a clearer insight into this history than the life of early America's dominant merchant trader, first bank president, and first central banker,...
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Polity
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2026-01-19
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This Open Access book marks the beginning of a new era in the study of Chinese history. Since the beginning of the computer age, quantitative techniques have been increasingly used to study specific topics like family, population, and living standards in China's past....
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Springer
Parution :
2025-09-25
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With substantial new approach and global relevance, this book provides a chronological narrative of how policy priority, policy design and institutional structure for coal, railways and power sector in India co-evolved in phases with changing national priorities. I...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
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2025-08-04
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When in their lives are innovators most creative, and why? This book summarizes more than two decades of research prompted by this question. The result is an authoritative statement of a new unified theory of creativity, that overturns both popular and scholarly beliefs...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-07-14
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Stefan M. Lehm untersucht in diesem Buch die Strategien der Augsburger Unternehmerfamilie Paumgartner, die zwischen 1478 und 1581 nachweisbar sind. Dabei geht er auf die Resilienz der drei Generationen der Familie ein, die wirtschaftlich aktiv waren und untersucht...
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Springer Gabler
Parution :
2025-05-30
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This book explores the economic and political transformation of Chile under the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship. It highlights how radical change, in this case the arrival of an authoritarian regime, takes place, as well as the impact it has upon citizens and the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-04-30
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Branko Milanovic is best known as one of the world’s leading experts on global inequality. But he is also an unusually wide-ranging and penetrating commentator on subjects across economics and beyond, in politics, history, and culture. This book brings together his most...
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Polity
Parution :
2025-04-07
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Scholars of credit markets have long focused on banks, but pre-modern as well as modern economies often relied on non-bank credit. This edited volume brings together international examples from across history that highlight how guilds, innkeepers, moneylenders,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-03-30
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Creating and Transforming the Twentieth Century combines two of Vaclav Smil's seminal works in a revised and expanded edition.Creating the Twentieth Century explores the period between 1867 and 1914, a time of unparalleled innovation that laid the groundwork for modern...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-03-28
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This book offers a comprehensive exploration of Gunnar Myrdal's life, as well as his significant scientific, political and international contributions. Recognized as one of the foremost Stockholm economists, Myrdal, alongside Keynes, played a pivotal role in...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-03-04
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The objective of this book is to analyze and compare the processes of corporate expansion of postwar Japan and Germany. It examines the evolution of distinctive Japanese and German business management styles through the adoption of American management methods, thereby...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-12-09
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The objective of this book is to elucidate the characteristics and significance of the relationships between industry and banks in Germany. This is the first book to undertake a historical and comprehensive examination of the personnel connections established through...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-11-28
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This book provides a comprehensive study of land property rights and transaction systems in late imperial China, specifically during the period of 1560 – 1950. The book introduces the work of two key scholars working in Chinese economic history and land property...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-29
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'Michael Sheridan is one of the best informed and wisest writers on China' - Chris Patten, last governor of Hong KongThe Red Emperor presents an eye-opening portrait of Xi Jinping, the man who presides over 1.4 billion people and the second largest economy on earth....
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Headline Press
Parution :
2024-08-29
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In 2020, for the first time in history, the worlds debt as a percentage of its gross domestic product exceeded 100 per cent. Although it has come down slightly since then, there are concerns about where the next debt crisis will happen, given that Pakistan and Sri Lanka...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-07-12
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This book explores global history as an emerging field of scholarly studies in China today. Readers are invited to rethink the origin of global history in China and to examine its current state. Chinese scholarship is rooted in a warm appreciation of globalization in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-06-30
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In 2020, for the first time in history, the worlds debt as a percentage of its gross domestic product exceeded 100 per cent. Although it has come down slightly since then, there are concerns about where the next debt crisis will happen, given that Pakistan and Sri Lanka...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-06-11
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