The paper examines political resentments and backlashes in historical episodes of globalization in terms of discussions of the morality of rising inequalities of income and wealth. It investigates the link between this discussion and a different interest-based political system that prevails in...

Wirtschaftskrisen, -einbrüche und -schocks können verheerend sein, doch langfristig wirkten sie offenbar oft transformativ. Harold James zeigt auf, inwiefern die großen Krisen ab Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts – von der Hungerkrise in Irland über die großen Weltwirtschaftskrisen bis zu den...

This study grounds the establishment of EMU and the euro in the context of the history of international monetary cooperation and of monetary unions, above all in the U.S., Germany and Italy. The purpose of national monetary unions was to reduce transactions costs of multiple currencies and...