Piero Sraffa delivered a course of lectures on Continental banking to Cambridge undergraduates in the spring term of 1929 and 1930. He wrote extensive lecture notes, from which this paper reconstructs the structure and contents of the course. Sraffa emphasised the differences between the British...

[eng] Transnational financial relations putting at bay state sovereignty have highly developed since World War two. The article analyses banks behaviour, and the rise of risks, and deals with a possible come-back to the state as the lender of last resort. [fre] Les relations financières...

The influence of political developments on the evolution of economic thought is the main theme behind this book. As the authors reveal throughout the book, history has shown many times that political events can trigger the formulation of new economic conceptions that in turn influence the future...