Foreword -- Map: the Italian peninsula before unification (1848) -- Map: Italy, present day -- An overview of Italy's economic growth / Gianni Toniolo -- Italy and the first age of globalization, 1861-1940 / Harold James and Kevin H. O'Rourke -- The golden age and the second globalization in...

Central Bankers are currently facing big challenges in designing and implementing monetary policy, as well as with safeguarding financial stability, with the world economy still in the process of digesting the legacy of the crisis. The crisis has changed central banking in many ways: by shifting...