"How did Sweden go from a financially backward country to one with a well functioning financial system? Why did this financial revolution occur after the mid-nineteenth century and not before? This bo
This collection of essays aims to form a focused, original and constructive approach to examining the question of convergence and divergence in Europe.
Coming out of the Codisyna project which looked at national financial systems during the Gold Standard years of 1871-1971, this collection of essays aims to form a focused, original and constructive
The remarkably successful gold standard before 1914 was the first international monetary regime. This book addresses the experience of the gold standard peripheries; i.e. regime takers with limited in
