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Book Review: A Europe Made of Money: The Emergence of the European Monetary...

The current crisis in the eurozone has roots going back four decades to the negotiations that eventually led to the introduction of the Euro. In A Europe Made of Money, Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol examines...

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Book Review: Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master’s Insights on China, the United...

Lee Kuan Yew, the founding father of modern Singapore and its prime minister from 1959 to 1990, has seem more than fifty years on the world stage. This book gathers key insights from interviews,...

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Book Review: The Clash of Economic Ideas: The Great Policy Debates and...

The Clash of Economic Ideas interweaves the economic history of the last hundred years with the history of economic doctrines to understand how contrasting economic ideas have originated and developed...

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Book Review: The Origins of International Banking in Asia: The Nineteenth and...

This volume examines the origins, growth, and business practices of European banks in Asia, and the development of Asian (notably Japanese and Hong Kong) banks, and their operations on an...

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Book Review: The Roman Market Economy

In The Roman Market Economy, Peter Temin accomplishes the quintessential task of the economic historian: to take shards of pottery, folios of brittle parchment, and patinated tools and fashion from...

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Book Review: The Confidence Trap: A History of Democracy from World War I to...

In David Runciman’s new book on the nature of democratic crisis, the author looks at a history of such events from the […]

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Book Review: Asian Imperial Banking History

When European powers began annexing parts of Asia, the establishment of banking systems was an important part of that process. […]

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Book Review: A Little History of Economics by Niall Kishtainy

In A Little History of Economics, Niall Kishtainy details the complex trajectory of economics from ancient Greece to the present, drawing on a wealth of historical knowledge, illuminating anecdotes and...

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Book Review: The Origins of International Banking in Asia: The Nineteenth and...

This volume examines the origins, growth, and business practices of European banks in Asia, and the development of Asian (notably Japanese and Hong Kong) banks, and their operations on an...

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Book Review: The Roman Market Economy by Peter Temin

In The Roman Market Economy, Peter Temin accomplishes the quintessential task of the economic historian: to take shards of pottery, folios of brittle parchment, and patinated tools and fashion from...

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Book Review: The Confidence Trap: A History of Democracy from World War I to...

In David Runciman’s new book on the nature of democratic crisis, the author looks at a history of such events from the early 20th Century to today. In doing so, he makes the argument that democracy is...

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Book Review: Asian Imperial Banking History

When European powers began annexing parts of Asia, the establishment of banking systems was an important part of that process. The essays in this edited collection are based on original research using...

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Book Review: A Little History of Economics by Niall Kishtainy

In A Little History of Economics, Niall Kishtainy details the complex trajectory of economics from ancient Greece to the present, drawing on a wealth of historical knowledge, illuminating anecdotes and...

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Book Review: Inside the Department of Economic Affairs: Samuel Brittan, the...

The rise and fall of the Department of Economic Affairs (DEA) parallels the promised but eventually unfulfilled modernization agenda of  Harold Wilson’s government. The diary kept by Samuel Brittan...

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Book Review: Why Nations Fail: the Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty...

Based on fifteen years of original research Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson marshall a broad range of historical evidence from the Roman Empire, the Mayan city-states, medieval Venice, the Soviet...

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Book Review: A Europe Made of Money: The Emergence of the European Monetary...

The current crisis in the eurozone has roots going back four decades to the negotiations that eventually led to the introduction of the Euro. In A Europe Made of Money, Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol examines...

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Book Review: Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master’s Insights on China, the United...

Lee Kuan Yew, the founding father of modern Singapore and its prime minister from 1959 to 1990, has seem more than fifty years on the world stage. This book gathers key insights from interviews,...

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Book Review: The Clash of Economic Ideas: The Great Policy Debates and...

The Clash of Economic Ideas interweaves the economic history of the last hundred years with the history of economic doctrines to understand how contrasting economic ideas have originated and developed...

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