Why Do We Tolerate Bureaucracy?: ...When We Don't Have to

A tender, nuanced and beautifully crafted story of a father's reckoning with his daughter, in the wake of his wife's death.

The true story of forbidden love in eighteenth-century Venice between an Italian noble and the brilliant, illegitimate daughter of an English baronet.

Using recent economic crises in the United States, Europe and Argentina to examine the interactions of power, politics and markets, Shambaugh analyses how political uncertainty affects market risks and identifies the conditions under which economic technocrats can compensate for political turmoil and manage market behaviour.