The Cambridge History of Capitalism 2 Volume Hardback Set

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Larry Neal is Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Specializing in financial history and European economies he is author of The Rise of Financial Capitalism: International Capital Markets in the Age of Reason (Cambridge 1990) and The Economics of Europe and the European Union (Cambridge 2007) and is co-editor of The Origins and Development of Financial Markets and Institutions: From the Seventeenth Century to the Present (Cambridge 2009) and ''''I am Not Master of Events'''': The Speculations of John Law and Lord Londonderry in the Mississippi and South Sea Bubbles (2012). Jeffrey G. Williamson is Emeritus Laird Bell Professor of Economics Harvard University and Honorary Fellow in the Department of Economics University of Wisconsin Madison. He is also Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research and has been a visiting professor at seventeen universities around the world. Professor Williamson specializes in development inequality globalization and history and he is the author of around 230 scholarly articles and thirty books his most recent being Trade and Poverty: When the Third World Fell Behind (2011) Globalization and the Poor Periphery before 1950 (2006) Global Migration and the World Economy (2005 with T. Hatton) and Globalization in Historical Perspective (2003 edited with M. Bordo and A. M. Taylor).