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Chinese merchants have traded with Southeast Asia for centuries, sojourning and sometimes settling during their voyages. These ventures have taken place by land and by sea, over mountains and across deserts, linking China with vast stretches of Southeast Asia in a broad, mercant…
Looks at the role of Chinese merchants in the transit of a number of commodities through Southeast Asia from pre-colonial to modern times.
Lord Byron described Greece as great, fallen, and immortal, a characterization more apt than he knew. Through most of its long history, Greece was poor. But in the classical era, Greece was densely populated and highly urbanized. Many surprisingly healthy Greeks lived in remarka…
Provides the first authoritative history of hedge funds. This is the inside story of their origins in the 1960s and 1970s, their explosive battles with central banks in the 1980s and 1990s, and finally their role in the financial crisis of 2007-9. Hedge funds reward risk takers,…
Economist Raghuram Rajan warned about the global financial crisis long before it hit, but few listened. Now, as the world struggles to recover, it's tempting to blame the crisis on just a few greedy bankers who took irrational risks and left the rest of us to foot the bill. In "…
Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: the politics of advanced capitalism Pablo Beramendi, Silja Hausermann, Herbert Kitschelt and Hanspeter Kriesi; Part I. Structural Transformations: 2. Prosperity and the evolving structure of advanced economies Carles Boix; 3. The…
