H James

Biographic Data

ID23521
NAMEH James
GIVEN NAMESH
FAMILY NAMEJames
SIGNATUREJAMES H
AFFILIATIONSPrinceton University
ORCID0009-0005-0239-6664
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS66
TOTAL CITATIONS66
AUTHOR COUNT66
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1963
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX4

  • What does it mean to study business history, and to what end

    H JamesARTICLEZeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschic…2026

    Business history functions as a moral balance sheet, documenting humanity’s values through markets and economic pricing. This field explores the long-term evolution of the corporation, the role of the entrepreneur, and the shifting definitions of capitalism. While mid-twentieth-century scholarship prioritized large-scale organizational stability, contemporary analysis addresses a «decentralized industrial order» and the political cultures enablin…

  • Golden weapons and golden fetters: From the gold standard to the new geopolitics

    Open AccessH JamesARTICLEThe Economic History Review2025References: 27

    This paper explores the historical relationship between monetary regimes, security concerns, and geopolitical tensions, particularly focusing on the role of gold. Throughout history, monetary systems have been deeply intertwined with international state systems and security provisions. Credibility in monetary regimes is affected by security challenges, often resulting in major systemic restructuring. In the past, military spending and security co…

  • Obituary for Knut Borchardt

    Open AccessH JamesARTICLEJahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte…2024

    the most important economic historian of the Federal Republic died peacefully in Munich at the age of 93.He will be remembered for his very substantial academic contributions, as well as an inspiring teacher whose legacy has been carried on by a substantial number of pupils.Above all he is known to a wider public through his role in what became known as the "Borchardt-Kontroverse", the debate about the economic problems of the Weimar Republic, an…

  • The role of sentiment in the US economy: 1920 To 1934

    Open AccessAli Kabiri, H James et al.ARTICLEThe Economic History Review2023Cited by: 2References: 35

    This paper investigates the role of sentiment in the US economy from 1920 to 1934 using digitised articles from The Wall Street Journal. We derive a monthly sentiment index and use a 10-variable vector error correction model to identify sentiment shocks that are orthogonal to fundamentals. We show the timing and strength of these shocks and their resultant effects on the economy using historical decompositions. Intermittent impacts of up to 15 pe…

  • Inflation and globalisation: The Tawney Lecture 2022

    Open AccessH JamesARTICLEThe Economic History Review2023References: 30

    The paper examines the causal relationships and interdependence between inflation and globalisation over centuries: in the sixteenth century, in the age of Spanish silver; then in the first age of modern globalisation from in the middle of the nineteenth century; and finally in the new globalisation that took off in the 1970s. In the latter cases, inflation was a response to a negative supply shock, and eventually generated policy decisions on ec…

  • How not to solve a financial crisis

    Open AccessH JamesARTICLEInternational Affairs2022

    In what ways can there be a learning from the past in the case of financial crises? A short-run assessment looks frequently different to a longer retrospective: policies that once appeared to be the best available turn out to be counter-productive. The article tackles this issue by examining three iconic and world-changing cases of financial crisis: 1931, 1997 and 2008. In each, it looked at first as if there was a substantial success, because th…

  • Scientific evidence for ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction

    Open AccessKaren Sudmeier-Rieux, T Arce-Mojica et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2021Cited by: 1References: 2

  • Advancing climate resilient development pathways since the IPCC’s fifth assessment report

    Open AccessS E Werners, Edward Sparkes et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Science & Policy2021Cited by: 9References: 8

    Development processes and action on climate change are closely interlinked. This is recognised by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in its fifth assessment report, which reports on climate-resilient pathways, understood as development trajectories towards sustainable development which include adaptation and mitigation. The upcoming sixth assessment report dedicates a chapter to climate resilient development pathways. In this co…

  • Networks and financial war: The brothers Warburg in the first age of globalization

    Open AccessH JamesARTICLEFinancial History Review2020

    This article examines the geo-economic consequences of the financial panic of October 1907. The vulnerability of the United States, but also of Germany, contrasted with the absence of a crisis in Great Britain. The experience showed the fast-growing industrial powers the desirability of mobilizing financial power, and the article examines the contributions of two influential brothers, Max and Paul Warburg, on different sides of the Atlantic. The …

  • Seven transformative crises from European revolution to corona: Globalization and state capacity

    Open AccessH JamesARTICLEFinancial History Review2020

    The article considers crises of globalization: the 1840s, the 1870s, the Great War, the Great Depression, the Great Inflation (1970s), the Global Financial Crisis (2008) and the Great Lockdown (2020). Each led to a reshaping of the institutions that supervised or regulated economic development globally but also nationally. In each case, a series of questions are answered: what were the origins of the crisis, what were the monetary and fiscal poli…

  • A monetary history of Norway, 1816–2016

    H JamesARTICLEScandinavian Economic History…2018

    As part of the bicentenary of Norges Bank, and based on an extensive compilation of historical monetary statistics, Oyvind Eitrheim, Jan Tore Klovland and Lars Fredrik Oksendal (henceforth EKO) hav

  • Beijing’s Bismarckian Ghosts: How Great Powers Compete Economically

    Markus K Brunnermeier, Markus Brunnermeier et al.ARTICLEThe Washington Quarterly2018Cited by: 3

    Great power competition is back. As China and the United States ramp up their strategic rivalry, the search is on for a vision of what their evolving great power competition will look like in a glo

  • Termites of the State: Why Complexity Leads to Inequality and Is Inequality in America Irreversible

    H JamesARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…2018References: 3

    These two books, which are diverse in style and length, are the products of writers with vastly different backgrounds. But they have a common theme, and they reach some strikingly similar conclusions. They cite similar figures, from similar sources, to demonstrate that the United States, and indeed many countries in the world, are becoming more unequal, both as a result of an economic dynamic and a movement away from redistributive taxation. In o…

  • Visions of Europe: European Integration as Redemption from the Past and as a Monetary Transaction

    Open AccessH JamesARTICLEContemporary European History2017References: 3

    Visions of Europe belong to a particular time. They carry with them the hallmark, the dominant patterns of thought, of their birth. But there also exist substantial continuities between three of these crucial moments: 1848, 1945 and 1989. At these times the process of building nation states also reached a peculiar moment of crisis – or a turning point. The idea of Europe, reformulated at these times of political collapse, existential angst and an…

  • The Euro and the Battle of Ideas

    Open AccessMarkus Konrad Brunnermeier, H James et al.BOOKEuro and the Battle of Ideas2016

    Book description: Why is Europe's great monetary endeavor, the Euro, in trouble? A string of economic difficulties in Greece, Ireland, Spain, Italy, and other Eurozone nations has left observers wondering whether the currency union can survive. In this book, Markus Brunnermeier, Harold James, and Jean-Pierre Landau argue that the core problem with the Euro lies in the philosophical differences between the founding countries of the Eurozone, parti…

  • Cosmos, chaos: Finance, power and conflict

    Open AccessH JamesARTICLEInternational Affairs2014Cited by: 3

    Journal Article Cosmos, chaos: finance, power and conflict Get access HAROLD JAMES HAROLD JAMES 1Professor of History and International Affairs and Claude and Lore Kelly Professor of European Studies at Princeton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 90, Issue 1, January 2014, Pages 37–57, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2346.12094 Published: 10 January 2014

  • Making the European Monetary Union

    H JamesBOOKMaking the European Monetary Union2012

    Europe’s financial crisis cannot be blamed on the Euro, Harold James contends in this probing exploration of the whys, whens, whos, and what-ifs of European monetary union. The current crisis goes deeper, to a series of problems that were debated but not resolved at the time of the Euro’s invention. Since the 1960s, Europeans had been looking for a way to address two conundrums simultaneously: the dollar’s privileged position in the international…

  • Finance is History

    H JamesARTICLEEuropean Review of History Revue…2012Cited by: 2

    A new sensitivity to the significance of historical experience has developed since the 2007 financial crisis. There are three possible ways of drawing on the past: as a source of advice on policies, of patterns of past evolution, of multiple possibilities. The best way of thinking about history is as a way of testing conventional hypotheses – particularly when those hypotheses are being used to create market opportunities (by making for false con…

  • International order after the financial crisis

    Open AccessH JamesARTICLEInternational Affairs2011Cited by: 1

    Journal Article International order after the financial crisis Get access HAROLD JAMES HAROLD JAMES 1Professor of History and International Afairs at Princeton University, and works on economic and financial history Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 87, Issue 3, May 2011, Pages 525–537, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2346.2011.00988.x Published: 03 May 2011

  • The Roman Predicament: How the Rules of International Order Create the Politics of Empire

    H JamesBOOKRoman Predicament2010

  • The New York Stock Market Crash

    H JamesARTICLERepresentations2010Cited by: 1

    Stock market panics involve major psychological elements, and fear appears in the form of a reference to past events that seem to have analogies. Not only was 1929 an example of this process, in that the participants thought in terms of previous crises, but 1929 has also become the standard against which subsequent events are judged

  • The Lower to Middle Paleolithic Transition in South Asia and Its Implications for Hominin Cognition and Dispersals

    H James, Hannah V A James et al.CHAPTERSourcebook of Paleolithic…2009

  • The Creation and Destruction of Value: The Globalization Cycle

    Open AccessH JamesBOOKCreation and Destruction of Value2009

  • Antitrust and Global Capitalism' 1930-2004

    H JamesARTICLEThe English Historical Review2008

    Tony Freyer has written a moderately useful survey of the role of antitrust regulation in shaping corporate structure and behaviour in the second half of the twentieth century. His main theme is that antitrust as the central plank of state regulatory policy was pioneered in the United States with the Sherman Act, and then developed extensively under President Franklin D. Roosevelt after an earlier attempt at a more wide-ranging control of busines…

  • Globalization, empire and natural law

    Open AccessH JamesARTICLEInternational Affairs2008Cited by: 1

    Three controversial concepts are central to discussion on how international order originates, how it operates, and ultimately how we should respect it: globalization, empire and natural law. Each of these is examined in turn in this article. The currently prevalent way of thinking about globalization simply as a system of inter-connections, of processes and networks that span national and cultural boundaries is likely to produce anti-globalizatio…