目次
1. Reflections on the evolution of financial crises : theory, history and empirics / Michael D. Bordo -- 2. The international contagion of short-run interest rates during the Great Depression / Samuel Maveyraud and Antoine Parent -- 3. Banking crises and lender of last resort in theory and practice in Swedish history, 1850--2010 / Anders Ögren -- 4. It is always the shadow banks : the regulatory status of the banks that failed and ignited America's greatest financial panics / Hugh Rockoff -- 5. Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz on the inherent instability of fractional reserve banking / Hugh Rockoff -- 6. Financial crises and the central bank : lessons from Japan during the 1920s / Masato Shizume -- 7. The economic and social backgrounds of top executives of the Federal Reserve before and after the Great Depression / Isao Suto