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10
Jan
2023

Mental Maps of Nationalisms

Mohandas Karamchand [Mahatma] Gandhi (1869-1948), anti-colonial nationalist who led nonviolent campaign for India's national self-reliance and independence from British rule; with spinning wheel and c...
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23
Nov
2022

How do you win the World Cup?

A year or so before South Africa hosted the 2010 FIFA World Cup, a visiting professor gave a talk at a South African university. He asked a very simple question: How do you win a world cup? Do you,...
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7
Oct
2022

Impunity and Economic History

In the spring of 1716, the entire French financial community was put on trial in a ritual prosecution known as the chambre de justice. Over the preceding centuries, these trials were held periodically,...
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19
Aug
2022

Foreign Banks and Global Finance in Modern China

If one visits Shanghai’s iconic waterfront known as the Bund (or Waitan in Chinese) today, one immediately notices the many historical buildings that line the western side of the Huangpu River. Remnants...
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24
Aug
2020

Is There a Bubble in the Stock Market?

This is the question that we get asked most often following the recent publication of our book Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles. With the U.S. stock market booming in the middle of...
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8
Jun
2020

A Distant Mirror? Economic Lessons from the Black...

Historians have long argued that the value of their field lay in its applicability to the present day. It serves society best, according to a recent formulation, as a guide that encourages broad perspective...
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3
Apr
2020

Silk in the Atlantic World – a dream...

How we understand and respond to failure is one of the most defining features of how our lives pan out. Some people refuse to fail. Some people expect to fail. Some people always hide from their own failings...
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12
Mar
2020

GATT: A Despised Do-Gooding Organization

The World Trade Organization has always had more critics than champions. These days, the charges that are made against the WTO include that it has overstepped its authority, that it impedes the ability...
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