"The foreign exchange market is the largest in the world, with a turnover running into trillions of dollars a day. Surprisingly the centre of this market is the City of London, even though it mainly trades US$s. The reasons why this is the case have never been satisfactorily explained, given the...

What are the long-term causes and consequences of the global financial crisis of 2007-2008? This book offers a fresh perspective on these issues by bringing together a range of academics from law, history, economics and business to look in more depth at the changing relationships between crises...