A leading economic historian presents a new history of financial crises, showing how some led to greater globalization while others kept nations apartThe eminent economic historian Harold James presents a new perspective on financial crises, dividing them into "good" crises, which ultimately expand markets and globalization, and "bad" crises, which result in a smaller, less prosperous world. Examining seven turning points in financial history—from the depression of the 1840s through...

A history of the steel and arms maker that came to symbolize the best and worst of modern German historyThe history of Krupp is the history of modern Germany. No company symbolized the best and worst of that history more than the famous steel and arms maker. In this book, Harold James tells the story of the Krupp family and its industrial empire between the early nineteenth century and the present, and analyzes its transition from a family business to one owned by a...

Harold James' neues Buch ist eine Geschichte der modernen Weltwirtschaft, die die großen wirtschaftlichen (und im Gefolge politischen) Krisen seit der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts bis heute miteinander in Beziehung setzt. Von den Hungersnöten ab 1840 über die Hyperinflation 1923, die Ölkrise der 1970er-Jahre, die Finanzkrise 2008/09 bis zur Coronakrise lässt sich, so James, beobachten, wie Versorgungsengpässe und steigende Preise politische Systeme wie Unternehmen zum Besseren verändern oder...

Nationalismus, Sozialismus oder Kapitalismus – diese Begriffe gehören zu den am heftigsten diskutierten Ideen in der Politik. Ihre eigentliche Bedeutung ist jedoch verloren gegangen. Die Wörter werden meist genutzt, um produktive Diskussionen zu kippen. Das Ergebnis sind Missverständnisse und Polarisierung.In diesem Buch deckt der große Wirtschaftshistoriker Harold James die Ursprünge zentraler Begriffe unserer politischen Debatten wieder auf. Er untersucht, wie ihre problematische ...

A timely call for recovering the true meanings of the nineteenth-century terms that are hobbling current political debatesNationalism, conservatism, liberalism, socialism, and capitalism are among the most fiercely debated ideas in contemporary politics. Since these concepts hark back to the nineteenth century, much of their nuanced meaning has been lost, and the words are most often used as epithets that short-circuit productive discussion. In this insightful book...

Making a Modern Central Bank examines a revolution in monetary and economic policy. This authoritative guide explores how the Bank of England shifted its traditional mechanisms to accommodate a newly internationalized financial and economic system. The Bank's transformation into a modern inflation-targeting independent central bank allowed it to focus on a precisely defined task of monetary management, ensuring price stability. The reframing of the task of central banks, however, left them...

Modern America owes the Roman Empire for more than gladiator movies and the architecture of the nation's Capitol. It can also thank the ancient republic for some helpful lessons in globalization. So argues economic historian Harold James in this masterful work of intellectual history.The book addresses what James terms "the Roman dilemma"--the paradoxical notion that while global society depends on a system of rules for building peace and prosperity, this system inevitably leads to...

Europe’s financial crisis cannot be blamed on the Euro, Harold James contends in this probing exploration of the whys, whens, whos, and what-ifs of European monetary union. The current crisis goes deeper, to a series of problems that were debated but not resolved at the time of the Euro’s invention.Since the 1960s, Europeans had been looking for a way to address two conundrums simultaneously: the dollar’s privileged position in the international monetary system, and Germany’s persi...

Nationalismus, Sozialismus oder Kapitalismus – diese Begriffe gehören zu den am heftigsten diskutierten Ideen in der Politik. Ihre eigentliche Bedeutung ist jedoch verloren gegangen. Die Wörter werden meist genutzt, um produktive Diskussionen zu kippen. Das Ergebnis sind Missverständnisse und Polarisierung.In diesem Buch deckt der große Wirtschaftshistoriker Harold James die Ursprünge zentraler Begriffe unserer politischen Debatten wieder auf. Er untersucht, wie ihre problematische...

"Globalization" is here. Signified by an increasingly close economic interconnection that has led to profound political and social change around the world, the process seems irreversible. In this book, however, Harold James provides a sobering historical perspective, exploring the circumstances in which the globally integrated world of an earlier era broke down under the pressure of unexpected events.James examines one of the great historical nightmares of the twentieth century: th...

Europe Contested analyses the failures and achievements of an astonishing era of economic advance and political chaos, from the First World War up to the present day.Beginning with the Great War, the book goes on to examine connections between the self-destruction of liberal democracy, market economics, and the international political and security framework in the interwar period. It then considers the mass politics that surrounded the glorification of new-style leaders Le...

Krupp ist eine deutsche Legende. Kaum ein anderes Unternehmen war so eng mit der deutschen Geschichte verflochten. Zugleich zeigte sich die Firma schon ungewöhnlich früh auf den Weltmärkten aktiv. Der renommierte Historiker Harold James erzählt in diesem Buch die Geschichte des Unternehmens, das seit seiner Gründung im Jahr1811 zum Symbol für die deutsche Industrie, für technische Pionierleistungen und soziale Verantwortung wurde, aber auch für das spannungsreiche Verhältnis von Wirtschaft...