Over millennia, mankind has used hard cash in various forms ranging from shells to gold coins and paper. More recently, cash has become unpopular in political circles, as it effectively restricts states’ power to tax (explicitly or via negative interest rates) or to survey and potentially...

What are the welfare and employment consequences of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) for developing and emerging countries? Standard quantitative models of international trade which are generally used to assess the impact of PTAs assume full employment and hence abstract from (net)...

The Popular Economy in Urban Latin America: Informality, Materiality and Gender in Commerce' advances comparative knowledge and theoretical reflections on urban popular economies in Latin America by going beyond the lenses of so-called informal and street economies. It develops a...

This volume develops the concept of intimate economies by showing how contemporary historical archaeologists apply the perspective to their research. The chapters in this volume address intimate economies across multiple historical contexts, and through various case studies provide the reader...