Whose fault are financial crises, and who is responsible for repairing the damage? The Department of History's Trevor Jackson explores these questions and develops a new approach to the history of capitalism and inequality by using the concept of impunity to show how financial crises stopped being crimes and became natural disasters.
Impunity and Capitalism: The Afterlives of European Financial Crises, 1690–1830
Trevor Jackson
September 15, 2022