Introduction / Daniela Preda -- Opening address / Mario Venturi & Realino Marra -- Lessons from the past : monetary unions in the 19th century Europe / Lara Piccardo -- Robert Triffin et le processus d'integration monetaire europaenne / Ivo Maes -- Le plan werner et la d'couverte d'europe...

This Forum aims to systematically describe and analyse the evolution of national financial systems within the EU over the past three decades. It analyses the processes of financialisation that have dominated this period as well as the causes and consequences of the financial crisis from the...

Introduction -- The European and Greek shipping firm -- The Vagliano ship masters: creating a business empire 1820s-1850s -- An international trading house from Russia to the U.K., 1850s-1880s -- The Russian government v. Mari Vagliano, 1881-1887 -- The Vagliano fleet and innovation in ship...