Sven-Olof Olsson (ed.), Managing Crises and De-globalization. Nordic foreign trade and exchange 1919-39 (New York: Routledge, 2014 pbk.)

Almost twenty years before the end of a remarkably long life and an extremely productive career, the Canadian-born economist John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006) argued that one the of the decisive factors engendering severe financial crises, and a fortiori the economic crises resulting thereof, is “the shortness of public memory, especially when it contends with a euphoric desire to forget.” (“The 1929 Parallel“, The Atlantic Monthly, 1987)