Finance & History

Carmen Hofmann, Secretary General of eabh, in conversation with Andrea Papadia, University of Bonn. In this episode of the eabh podcast we  talk about the slave business, its connections with the financial industry and the case of Brazil. Sources as mentioned in recording:  González, Marshall, Nadir (2017). 'Start up Nation?' Slave Wealth and Entrepreneurship in Civl War Maryland'. Naidu (2020). 'American Slavery and Labour Market Power'. Legacies of British Slave Ownership Database Olmstead, Rhode (2017). 'Cotton, Slavery and the New History of Capitalism'. Palma, Papadia, Pereira and Weller (2021). 'Slavery and Development in 19th Century Brazil'.

Hugo Bänziger, former Chief Risk Officer at Deutsche Bank and Chairman of eabh in conversation with Torsten Wegner, a leader of Risk Dynamics at Mc Kinsey.  In this episode, our experts will talk about the development of financial risk management since Bretton Woods, its failures during the Great Financial Crises, how the industry has taken on the complexities of risk since 2008; and what finance could learn from the Apollo Space Mission to the moon... www.bankinghistory.org

Carmen Hofmann, Secretary General of eabh in conversation with Tobias Straumann, University of Zürich. In this episode of Finance & History we are talking about financial crises, sovereign debt, the complexity of international frameworks and the rise of Hitler.  Straumann (2019). '1931: Debt, Crisis, and the Rise of Hitler'