The financial crisis of 2008 aroused widespread interest in banking and financial history. In an attempt to better understand the magnitude of the shock, there was a demand for historical parallels. This volume provides the material for such a reflection by presenting the state of the art in...

1. Conventional Macroeconomic Policy -- 2. Islamic Macroeconomic Policies -- 3. Capital Markets: Conventional versus Islamic -- 4. Risk Sharing and Public Policy -- 5. Government Finance and the Debt Market -- 6. Government Finance and the Equity Market -- 7. Macro Market Application -- 8. Micro...

Financialisation, or the disproportionate importance of financial considerations in economic decisions, has been a defining feature of the economic history of the last twenty-five years. The wave of deregulation that accompanied the neoliberal agenda in the US, aided by the dominance of US...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The Bank of Thompson and Company -- Chapter 3 – Thompson and Company in the wider history of banking -- Chapter 4 – The ‘bank’ of Thompson and Company? -- Chapter 5 – The partners’ family networks -- Chapter 6 – The creditors of Thompson and...

This book provides a uniquely comprehensive explanation of the 2008-2009 global financial crisis and resulting scholarly research in the context of building an agenda for reform. With the clarity provided by almost a decade of hindsight and a careful eye toward planning for prevention, Elson...

This book theoretically and empirically explores why Japanese banks engaged in seemingly contradictory behaviors in the 1990s, namely, the credit crunch and evergreening, i.e., inefficient additional lending. A credit crunch occurs when banks are unwilling to finance good and efficient projects....

With substantial risks arising from resource constraints on global growth, serious questions are being posed about how a scarcity of finite resources may impact global social and political fragility. The research which forms the core of this book focuses on how this scarcity will impact the...

This book analyzes Africa's unprecedented economic growth, the state of its financial sector, and the varied opportunities for Islamic finance investors. It considers the role - potential and realized - of Islamic finance in fostering financial inclusion in areas such as banking, microfinance,...

This contributed volume combines approaches of the current inequality debate with aspects of finance based on profound macroeconomic model analyses. Research on inequality has had a long tradition in economics. With the financial crisis from 2007, not only output decreased tremendously, but also...

1. Islamic Financial System -- 2. Role of the OIC and other International Organizations towards a Sustainable Development of Islamic Finance -- 3. Evolution of Islamic Financial Products and Services -- 4. Islamic Financial Policies -- 5. Islamic Financial Services Board (IFSB) and Its...