The dissertation includes four studies broadly connected to the causes and consequences of the Global Financial Crisis of 2007-8 from a political economy perspective. Following the intro-duction, Chapter 2 analyzes the political roots of massive foreign reserves accumulation, which has...

The rise of a crisis-prone banking sector and its political power has received significant attention following the most recent financial crisis. The crisis sparked a growing interest in understanding how and why we have created a world of large, unstable banks. Excessive banking activity arose...

Machine generated contents note: 1. An Essay on Government and Governance 1 -- 2. The Political-Economic Logic of World Governance 39 -- 3. The Rule of Law and the Capture and Use of Government in a World of Inequality 61 -- 4. Hayek from the Perspective of an Institutionalist Historian of...