The political economy of global financial liberalisation in historical perspective

This paper is a first attempt to garner the theory and evidence on the political economy of the first wave of financial liberalisation during the nineteenth and early twentieth century, and of its demise after World War I. Not everyone gained from the process of globalisation (of trade, labour, and...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Esteves, R
Format: Working paper
Published: University of Oxford 2011