"In the last twenty years, several periods of turmoil have shaped the financial and economic system. Many regulatory policies, such as Basle III, have been introduced to overcome further crises and scandals. In addition, monetary policy has experienced a transition from conventional to...

The origin of markets is a central issue in economics and economic history, but until now there has been no definitive reference source on the subject. This authoritative collection fills the gap by reprinting key papers analysing the evolution of markets over the past millennium. These papers,...

The increasing dominance of finance starting in the late 1970s/early 1980s in the US and the UK, and somewhat later in other countries, was associated with two fundamental and structural processes generating the contradictions of this phase of development and finally the financial and economic...