Why do stock and housing markets sometimes experience amazing booms followed by massive busts and why is this happening more and more frequently? In order to answer these questions, William Quinn and John D. Turner take us on a riveting ride through the history of financial bubbles, visiting,...

The international monetary system imploded during the Great Depression. As the conventional narrative goes, the collapse of the gold standard and the rise of competitive devaluation sparked a monetary war that sundered the system, darkened the decade, and still serves as a warning to...

The oceanic explorations of the 1490s led to countless material innovations worldwide and caused profound ruptures. Beverly Lemire explores the rise of key commodities across the globe, and charts how cosmopolitan consumption emerged as the most distinctive feature of material life after 1500 as...

"The Origins of Globalization: For better or for worse, in recent times the rapid growth of international economic exchange has changed our lives. But when did this process of globalisation begin, and what effects did it have on economies and societies? Pim de Zwart and Jan Luiten van Zanden...

"In the Methodological Prologue to this book, I mention that Political Economy of Modernism takes its place in relation to my earlier books, Modernism and Time, which examined cultural modernism in relation to intellectual institutions of the sciences, mathematics, and aesthetics in the early...

"Why do stock and housing markets sometimes experience amazing booms followed by massive busts and why is this happening more and more frequently? In order to answer these questions, William Quinn and John D. Turner take us on a riveting ride through the history of financial bubbles, visiting,...

Introduction: the struggle over Cold War rationality -- Enlightenment reason, Cold War rationality, and the rule of rules -- The bounded rationality of Cold War operations research -- Saving the planet from nuclear weapons and the human mind -- "The situation" in the Cold War behavioral sciences...