An empirical investigation of financial crises during the last 800 years.

This book presents evidence that public debts in the advanced economies have surged in recent years to levels not recorded since the end of World War II, surpas

We've been assured that the recession is over, but the country and the economy continue to feel the effects of the 2008 financial crisis, and people are still s

Before 2007, economists thought that financial crises would never happen again in the United States, that such upheavals were a thing of the past. Gary B. Gorto

“A brilliant and lucid new book” (John Lanchester, New York Times Magazine) about why paper money and digital currencies lie at the heart of many of the wor