Banking

Markets are artifacts of language - so Douglas R. Holmes argues in this deeply researched look at central banks and the people who run them. Workin...

Taking financial risks is an essential part of what banks do, but there's no clear sense of what constitutes responsible risk. Taking legal risks s...

Markets are artifacts of language - so Douglas R. Holmes argues in this deeply researched look at central banks and the people who run them. Workin...

What constitutes a sovereign wealth fund is contested. In general, however, it is a state-sponsored institutional investor that is answerable only ...

'Worth far more than its cover price ... I wish I’d had it available to me when I was first looking for startup funding' -- Eric RiesEvery startup ...

The American government today supports a financial system based on mortgage lending, and it often bails out the financial institutions making these...

The American government today supports a financial system based on mortgage lending, and it often bails out the financial institutions making these...

La Banque de Montréal (BMO), première banque du Canada et l'une des plus anciennes d'Amérique du Nord, figure au panthéon des bâtisseurs de la nati...

One day, everything is going well; the next, disaster strikes. What do you do when every pillar is collapsing, every rule is being broken and chaos...

The long awaited conclusion to the magisterial Money and Banking in Medieval and Renaissance Venice.Originally published in 1997. In 1985 Frederic ...

How bankers created the modern consumer credit economy and destroyed financial stability in the process   “As much as it enriches our scholarship, ...

How the U.S. Federal Reserve began actively intervening in marketsWalter Bagehot's Lombard Street, published in 1873 in the wake of a devastating L...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the ...