Examines how the democracies shifted from monetary war to peace during the Great Depression with the Tripartite Agreement of 1936.

"The international monetary system imploded during the Great Depression. As the conventional narrative goes, the collapse of the gold standard and the rise of c

John Maynard Keynes, then a rising young economist, participated in the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 as chief representative of the British Treasury and advis

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An “outstanding new intellectual biography of John Maynard Keynes [that moves] swiftly along currents of lucidity and wit” (Th

The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa delves into the business of politics in the turbulent, war-torn countries of north-east Africa. It is a contemporary his