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- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
Watford City, and Belfield had completely overbuilt—dug basins for homes that were never occupied, added on to schools with bond issues that were painful. So part of the rub today is that a lot of the locals—presidents of the banks, the View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
Beijing is America’s largest foreign creditor. But how long will the Chinese continue to finance U.S. deficit spending? Illustration by Stuart Bradford In his new book, The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World, HBS professor... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Faculty Books
navigate your company’s complex political environment); and manage a team (forge a high-performing “we” out of all the “I”s who report to you). The Comingled Code: Open Source and Economic Development by Josh Lerner and Mark Schankerman... View Details
- February 2023 (Revised March 2024)
- Case
Doing Business in New Delhi, India
By: Vikram S Gandhi and Radhika Kak
The case uses the example of Tata Motors to discuss the opportunities and challenges of doing business in India. View Details
Keywords: Business Cycles; Development Economics; Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Growth; Economic Sectors; Economy; Macroeconomics; Business History; India
Gandhi, Vikram S., and Radhika Kak. "Doing Business in New Delhi, India." Harvard Business School Case 323-083, February 2023. (Revised March 2024.)
- September 2002
- Case
World Trade Organization, The
By: David A. Moss and Nick Bartlett
Explores the origins and workings of the World Trade Organization (WTO), focusing particular attention on the special challenges of trade liberalization at the dawn of the 21st century. View Details
Moss, David A., and Nick Bartlett. "World Trade Organization, The." Harvard Business School Case 703-015, September 2002.
- 2011
- Chapter
Another Grand Tour: Cameralism and Antiphysiocracy in Tuscany, Baden, and Denmark-Norway
Reinert, Sophus A. "Another Grand Tour: Cameralism and Antiphysiocracy in Tuscany, Baden, and Denmark-Norway." In Physiocrats, Antiphysiocracy and Pfeiffer, edited by Jurgen Backhaus, 39–69. Springer, 2011.
Fair Competition
during unprecedented economic changes such as rapid industrialization or economic depression. His use of political and economic logic to justify antitrust rules that appeared... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Professor, Historian, and Storyteller
but so too were people. Often ruthless, insatiably curious, amazingly driven, the fascinating men and women that helped create American business history are a very important thread in this book. History is... View Details
- March 2010
- Article
Sudden Stops: Determinants and Output Effects in the First Era of Globalization, 1880–1913
By: Michael D. Bordo, Alberto Cavallo and Christopher Meissner
We study the determinants and output effects of sudden stops in capital inflows during an era of intensified globalization from 1880 to 1913. Higher levels of exposure to foreign currency debt and large current account deficits associated with reliance on foreign... View Details
Keywords: Sudden Stops; Capital Flows; Economics; Macroeconomics; Economic Growth; Financial Crisis; Globalization; History
Bordo, Michael D., Alberto Cavallo, and Christopher Meissner. "Sudden Stops: Determinants and Output Effects in the First Era of Globalization, 1880–1913." Journal of Development Economics 91, no. 2 (March 2010): 227–241.
- 1997
- Book
Creating Modern Capitalism: How Entrepreneurs, Companies, and Countries Triumphed in Three Industrial Revolutions
McCraw, T. K., ed. Creating Modern Capitalism: How Entrepreneurs, Companies, and Countries Triumphed in Three Industrial Revolutions. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997.
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
exemplifies energetic government and vigorous federal programs for economic growth. Gallatin symbolizes low taxes and less intrusion by government." Not surprisingly, the two men (after whom two HBS buildings are named) were political... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
The Intellectual Underpinnings of Entrepreneurial Management
of entrepreneurs was to bear risk, Cantillon focused his attention on the economic functions of entrepreneurship—a focus that was to hold sway until very recently. In various economic approaches to... View Details
- 27 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Coffee Economy That Bloomed Out of Nowhere
The Entrepreneurs Of The Soconusco A protégée of historian John Womack, Lurtz took an interest in Latin American economics while an undergrad at Harvard College. As a doctoral student at the University of Chicago, she spent more than a... View Details
- 2018
- Chapter
Historical Political Economy
This book is a major contribution to the study of political economy. With chapters ranging from the origins of political economy to its most exciting research fields, this handbook provides a reassessment of political economy as it stands today, while boldly gesturing... View Details
Reinert, Sophus A. "Historical Political Economy." Chap. 5 in The Palgrave Handbook of Political Economy, edited by Ivano Cardinale and Roberto Scazzieri, 133–169. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
- December 1986
- Article
Understanding the U.S. Dollar in the Eighties: The Expectations of Chartists and Fundamentalists
By: J. Frankel and K. A. Froot
Keywords: Currencies; Exchange Rates; Asset Pricing; International Macroeconomics; Monetary Policy; Currency Controls; Fixed Exchange Rates; Floating Exchange Rates; Currency Bands; Currency Zones; Currency Areas; Rational Expectations; History; Performance Expectations; Economics; United States
Frankel, J., and K. A. Froot. "Understanding the U.S. Dollar in the Eighties: The Expectations of Chartists and Fundamentalists." Special Issue Economic Record (December 1986): 24–38. (Reprinted in Exchange Rate Economics, vol. I, edited by R. MacDonald and M. Taylor, International Library of Critical Writings in Economics, Edward Elgar Publishing, U.K., 1992.)
- 2009
- Book
The Concept of Capitalism
By: Bruce R. Scott
This monograph on the concept of capitalism is the intellectual core of a larger work, entitled Capitalism, Its Origins and Evolution as a System of Governance, due for publication November 2009. The purpose of this monograph is to put forth an original concept of... View Details
Scott, Bruce R. The Concept of Capitalism. Springer, 2009. (Online version available by clicking on title.)
- August 1997 (Revised September 2004)
- Case
South Africa: Getting in GEAR
In 1997, Thabo Mbeki is contemplating South Africa's performance since the end of Apartheid in 1994. The economy has done fairly well, but the government's macroeconomic strategy calls for higher growth and employment creation. The case describes the country's history,... View Details
Vietor, Richard H.K. "South Africa: Getting in GEAR." Harvard Business School Case 798-012, August 1997. (Revised September 2004.)
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Letters to the Editor
people will stop investing if the capital gains tax rate is 30 to 40 percent, the same as upper-income tax rates. Check your economic history books, folks. Did anyone stop investing when tax rates reached 70... View Details
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
this interview he discusses the development of the German corporation and what modern managers can learn from that history. The book was edited by Thomas K. McCraw, the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History at HBS, and was... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 2010
- Chapter
Paying in Paper: A Government Voucher from the Southern Song
By: William N. Goetzmann and Elisabeth Koll
Goetzmann, William N., and Elisabeth Koll. "Paying in Paper: A Government Voucher from the Southern Song." In The Origins of Value: The Financial Innovations that Created Modern Capital Markets, Translation by Wany Yu and Wang Wenyu. Shenyang: Wan juan chu ban gong si, 2010, Chinese Mandarin ed.