Financial innovations and crises: the view backwards from Northern Rock / Jeremy Atack -- An economic explanation of the early Bank of Amsterdam, debasement, bills of exchange and the emergence of the first central bank / Stephen Quinn and William Roberds -- With a view to hold: the emergence of...

The historical context -- Two centuries of South American reflections on the development gap between the United States and Latin America / Tulio Halperin Donghi -- Looking at them: a Mexican perspective on the gap with the United States / Enrique Krauze -- Explaining Latin America's lagging...

Pt. 1. Fitoussi lecture. Economics and China's economic rise / Wu Jinglian -- pt. 2. Perspectives of the Chinese economy. China's investment and GDP growth boom : when and how will it end? / Dwight H. Perkins ; Six systemic reforms with which China must press ahead / Lou Jiwei ; When demographic...