Erasmus Forum Jun 4, 2020 2 min Abstract for “The quest for stability: early public banking in the Mediterranean, 14th to 16th c.” by Jocopo Sartori ________________________________________________________________________________ Early public banks have been deemed by...
Erasmus Forum Apr 5, 2020 16 min Early Islam and the Birth of Capitalism Benedikt Koehler Anyone who sells a house and makes a profit wants to know what to do with the money they make. If they live in a city...
Erasmus Forum Feb 19, 2020 9 min Happy Days: Britain’s Not So Great Depression Stephen Clark For many, Britain in the 1930s is the age of the Jarrow Marchers, Orwell’s The Road to Wigan Pier (1937), and the darkening...
Erasmus Forum Feb 19, 2020 13 min Inventions of Numbers and Zero [Excerpt] Mark Ronan The following is an excerpt from a talk given by Professor Mark Ronan, University College,London at a research seminar. An...
