Through an archive-based study of the political and financial history of the 1920s, this book examines how and why international capital teamed up with the League of Nations to bail out the Austrian state after the First World War, and what consequences the intervention carried for Austrian...

Learning lessons -- Blessings and perils of liberal finance -- Financial crises in the era of globalization -- From crises to imbalances -- Calm before a storm -- Toward adjustment and domestic reform -- Toward global reform -- Toward a more stable world