History, memory, and the return of financial crises after Bretton Woods / edited by Youssef Cassis, Giuseppe Telesca.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cassis, Youssef, editor.

Telesca, Giuseppe (Research associate), editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Financial crises--History.

Financial crises.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2026]

Summary:

"The history of financial crises can be approached from several perspectives. This book considers the role played by memory, and its relationships with history, when it comes to financial crises. The book is not primarily interested in the lesson drawing process activated by the remembrance of past crises (even though there is also space for this element). It is interested, instead, in whether or not, and how, the memory of previous crises has persisted, faded, or changed over time. Intertwining memory and narrative representations of the reality, the volume investigates the reasons why some crises have been (selectively) remembered and others apparently forgotten. The book goes beyond the analogy Great Depression–Global Financial Crisis that has been suggested and analysed since 2007. Comparisons with the financial crises of the Great Depression are not avoided, and can be found in most chapters of the book, but the case studies gathered here are devoted to other important crises that have invested the international system since the early 1970s and the return to financial instability, in particular the shocks of the 1970s, the International Debt Crisis of 1982, the Stock Market Crash of 1987, the financial turbulences of the 1990s, including the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997, and the Global Financial Crisis of 2008. In addition, some chapters take a long-term perspective, going back to the 1930s or even the late nineteenth century, while others discuss thematic issues (regulation, bankers’ collective biography, economics education) related to financial crises"-- Oxford Academic.

Contents:

Introduction : history and memory of financial crises / Youssef Cassis and Giuseppe Telesca

Forgotten and remembered nightmares : Herstatt risk in the global payments system / Catherine R. Schenk

Narratives and memories of the international debt crisis from an Anglo-American and Mexican perspective / Bruno Pacchiotti and Giuseppe Telesca

Episodic amnesia and selective memory : a literature overview of the 1982 crisis on the eve of its fortieth anniversary / Carlo Edoardo Altamura and Juan Flores Zendejas

The spectre of history : how the fear of depression haunts financial crises / Johanna Gautier-Morin

From a developmental to a market-oriented economy : memory and the politics of the ‘IMF’ crisis in South Korea / Seung Woo Kim

The end of Bretton Woods and the rise of over-the-counter derivatives : the mostly forgotten regulatory debates / Tobias Pforr

Bankers in times of crisis : a prosopographic study of global financial elites, 1982-2008 / Niccolò Valmori

The problems of economics : shifting crises in economics education after Bretton Woods / Alice Pearson

Banking under the influence of history? Remembering and forgetting at Danske Bank / Per H. Hansen

The global financial crisis of 2008 : memory, history, legacy / Youssef Cassis.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from home page (Oxford Academic, viewed May 5, 2026).

Other Format:

Print version: History, memory, and the return of financial crises after Bretton Woods

ISBN:

9780198950158

0198950152

9780198950141

0198950144

9780198950134

0198950136

OCLC:

1578073562

Publisher Number:

CIPO000362453

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license