Harold James

Princeton University - Department of History

Princeton, NJ 08544

United States

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA 02138

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1.

The Gold Standard, Deflation, and Financial Crisis in the Great Depression: An International Comparison

NBER Working Paper No. w3488
Number of pages: 78 Posted: 15 Jul 2004 Last Revised: 15 Jul 2022
Ben S. Bernanke and Harold James
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and Princeton University - Department of History
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The International Monetary Fund: Its Present Role in Historical Perspective

NBER Working Paper No. w7724
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 12 Jun 2000 Last Revised: 11 Aug 2022
Michael D. Bordo and Harold James
Rutgers University, New Brunswick - Department of Economics and Princeton University - Department of History
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The International Monetary and Financial System: A Capital Account Historical Perspective

BIS Working Paper No. 457
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 12 Sep 2014
Claudio E. V. Borio, Harold James and Hyun Song Shin
Bank for International Settlements (BIS) - Research and Policy Analysis, Princeton University - Department of History and Bank for International Settlements (BIS)
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excess financial elasticity, banking glut, current account, capital account, financial cycle, financial crises

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Family Values or Crony Capitalism?

Capitalism and Society, Vol. 3, Issue 1, Article 5, 2008
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 30 Jan 2013
Harold James
Princeton University - Department of History
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Haberler Versus Nurkse: The Case for Floating Exchange Rates as an Alternative to Bretton Woods?

U of St. Gallen, Dept. of Econ. Working Paper No. 2001-08
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 05 Oct 2001
Michael D. Bordo and Harold James
Rutgers University, New Brunswick - Department of Economics and Princeton University - Department of History
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Exchange rates, floating rates, interwar period

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Italy and the First Age of Globalization, 1861-1940

Bank of Italy Economic History Working Paper No. 16
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 25 Mar 2013
Harold James and Kevin H. O'Rourke
Princeton University - Department of History and University of Dublin, Trinity College
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comparative economic history, industrial policy, monetary policy, monetary regime, trade policy

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The Impact of the Financial Crisis on the European Economic Constitution

EUI LAW Working Paper No. 2010/05
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 30 Oct 2010
Harold James, Hans‐W. Micklitz and Heike Schweitzer
Princeton University - Department of History, European University Institute - Department of Law (LAW) and Humboldt University of Berlin - Faculty of Law
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financial crisis, European economic constitution, monetary union, economic crisis

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The Great Depression Analogy

NBER Working Paper No. w15584
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 15 Dec 2009 Last Revised: 30 Jan 2023
Michael D. Bordo and Harold James
Rutgers University, New Brunswick - Department of Economics and Princeton University - Department of History
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The Role of Sentiment in the Economy of the 1920s

CESifo Working Paper No. 8336
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 05 Jun 2020
Ali Kabiri, Harold James, John Landon-Lane, David Tuckett and Rickard Nyman
University of Buckingham - Department of Economics and International Studies, Princeton University - Department of History, Rutgers University, New Brunswick/Piscataway - Faculty of Arts and Sciences-New Brunswick/Piscataway - Department of Economics, University College London - Centre for the Study of Decision-Making Uncertainty and University College London - Centre for the Study of Decision-Making Uncertainty
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Great Depression, general theory, algorithmic text analysis, behavioural economics

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The European Crisis in the Context of the History of Previous Financial Crises

NBER Working Paper No. w19112
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 08 Jun 2013 Last Revised: 23 Mar 2023
Michael D. Bordo and Harold James
Rutgers University, New Brunswick - Department of Economics and Princeton University - Department of History
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The Digitalization of Money

NBER Working Paper No. w26300
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 23 Sep 2019 Last Revised: 13 May 2023
Markus K. Brunnermeier and Harold James
Princeton University - Department of Economics and Princeton University - Department of History
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Central Banks: Between Internationalisation and Domestic Political Control

BIS Working Paper No. 327
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 01 Dec 2010
Harold James
Princeton University - Department of History
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Central Bank Independence, Central Bank Governance, Monetary Policy Financial Crisis

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Comment on 'International Monetary Regimes' (by Charles Goodhart and Dimitrios Tsomocos)

Capitalism and Society, Vol. 9, No. 2, Article 6, 2014
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 12 Nov 2014
Harold James
Princeton University - Department of History
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A Long Term Perspective on the Euro

NBER Working Paper No. w13815
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 15 Feb 2008 Last Revised: 02 Oct 2022
Michael D. Bordo and Harold James
Rutgers University, New Brunswick - Department of Economics and Princeton University - Department of History
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One World Money, then and Now

NBER Working Paper No. w12189
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 25 May 2006 Last Revised: 26 Oct 2022
Michael D. Bordo and Harold James
Rutgers University, New Brunswick - Department of Economics and Princeton University - Department of History
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The Mark and the Kaiserreich: Cosmopolitan or National Currency?

U of St. Gallen, Dept of Econ Working Paper No. 2001-09
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 05 Oct 2001
Harold James
Princeton University - Department of History
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Gold standard, national moneys, international monetary reform

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Swiss Exchange Rate Policy in the 1930s. Was the Delay in Devaluation Too High a Price to Pay for Conservatism?

NBER Working Paper No. w12491
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 04 Sep 2006 Last Revised: 20 Aug 2022
Michael D. Bordo, Thomas Helbling and Harold James
Rutgers University, New Brunswick - Department of Economics, International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Middle East and Central Asia Department and Princeton University - Department of History
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The Adam Klug Memorial Lecture: Haberler Versus Nurkse: The Case for Floating Exchange Rates as an Alternative to Bretton Woods?

NBER Working Paper No. w8545
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 18 Oct 2001 Last Revised: 07 Nov 2022
Michael D. Bordo and Harold James
Rutgers University, New Brunswick - Department of Economics and Princeton University - Department of History
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Comment on 'Immigrant Entrepreneurs in U.S. Financial History, 1775-1914' (by Thomas K. McCraw)

Capitalism and Society, Vol. 5, Issue 1, Article 6, 2010
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 29 Jan 2013
Harold James
Princeton University - Department of History
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Gran Bretaña y Europa: ¿Qué Sigue? (Britain and Europe: What Ways Forward?)

Revista de Economía Institucional, Vol. 19, No. 36, 2017
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 25 May 2017
Harold James
Princeton University - Department of History
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Brexit, United Kingdom, Democracy, Political Science, Political Psychology, Political Parties

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Capital Flows and Domestic and International Order: Trilemmas from Macroeconomics to Political Economy and International Relations

NBER Working Paper No. w21017
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 16 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 05 Jun 2023
Michael D. Bordo and Harold James
Rutgers University, New Brunswick - Department of Economics and Princeton University - Department of History
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Brexit and the New Globalization

Brexit Institute Working Paper Series No 2/2023
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 28 Sep 2023
Harold James
Princeton University - Department of History
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Globalization, migration, sovereignty, technology, political tradition

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Reserves and Baskets

NBER Working Paper No. w17492
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 08 Oct 2011 Last Revised: 19 Apr 2023
Michael D. Bordo and Harold James
Rutgers University, New Brunswick - Department of Economics and Princeton University - Department of History
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What about a world of currency? Proposal for a common currency among rich democracies. One world money, then and now.

Bank of Greece Working Paper No. 44
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 15 Jul 2022
Richard N. Cooper, Michael D. Bordo and Harold James
Harvard University - Department of Economics, Rutgers University, New Brunswick - Department of Economics and Princeton University - Department of History
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Currency, Exchange rates

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Partial Fiscalization: Some Lessons on Europe's Unfinished Business

NBER Working Paper No. w23220
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 19 Mar 2017 Last Revised: 12 Jun 2023
Michael D. Bordo and Harold James
Rutgers University, New Brunswick - Department of Economics and Princeton University - Department of History
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Trapped in the Trilemma: When Security Trumps Economics

NBER Working Paper No. w30506
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 03 Oct 2022 Last Revised: 10 May 2023
Michael D. Bordo and Harold James
Rutgers University, New Brunswick - Department of Economics and Princeton University - Department of History
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Deglobalization: The Rise of Disembedded Unilateralism

Annual Review of Financial Economics, Vol. 10, pp. 219-237, 2018
Posted: 08 Nov 2018
Harold James
Princeton University - Department of History

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