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  • Seven Crashes

    The Economic Crises That Shaped Globalization

    by Harold James ...
    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. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The End of Globalization

    Lessons from the Great Depression

    by Harold James ...
    "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 ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • The Creation and Destruction of Value

    The Globalization Cycle

    by Harold James ...
    Harold James examines the vulnerability and fragility of processes of globalization, both historically and in the present. This book applies lessons from past breakdowns of globalization—above all in the Great Depression—to show how financial crises provoke backlashes against global integration: against the mobility of capital or goods, but also against flows of migration. By a parallel ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Krupp

    A History of the Legendary German Firm

    by Harold James ...
    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 ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Roman Predicament

    How the Rules of International Order Create the Politics of Empire

    by Harold James ...
    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 ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

  • The War of Words

    A Glossary of Globalization

    by Harold James ...
    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 ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Europe Contested

    From the Kaiser to Brexit

    by Harold James ...
    Series series Longman History of Modern Europe
    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 ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Making the European Monetary Union

    by Harold James ...
    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 ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Making a Modern Central Bank

    The Bank of England 1979–2003

    by Harold James ...
    Series series Studies in Macroeconomic History
    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 ... Read more

    $40.19 USD

  • Enterprise in the Period of Fascism in Europe

    by Harold James, Jakob Tanner ...
    Series series Studies in Banking and Financial History
    The essays in this volume consider the involvement of business corporations and of individual businessmen in the politics of the 1930s and 1940s: in the move away from the market and also from democracy, towards state control and authoritarianism, including the massive intervention of the state in property rights. How far did businesses attempt to guide this intervention for their own purposes, ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

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    Seven Crashes

    The Economic Crises That Shaped Globalization

    by Harold James ...
    Narrated by Michael Butler Murray ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 32 min

    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. ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Strategic And Critical Materials

    by L. Harold Bullis, James E Mielke, L Harold Bullis ...
    Much attention has been focused on U.S. dependency on imports for supplies of strategic minerals and materials. There is alarm about the extent of that dependency and about the possibility that U.S. economic, political, and strategic decisions might be unduly influenced by arbitrary actions of foreign suppliers. In addition, there is concern that t ... Read more

    $55.99 USD