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About Bernardo Batiz-Lazo
I am a business historian of the automation of retail banking. I have explored themes such as the ATM and the cashless society. My interests and publications also straddle contemporary issues in digital payments. For my weekly list of working papers in business and economic history see http://nep.repec.org/nep-his.h...
Bernardo Batiz-Lazo is currently straddling between Newcastle and Mexico City. You can find him on twitter on issues related to business history of banking, fintech, payments and other musings. Not always in that order. @BatizLazo
NBN Episodes hosted by Bernardo:
November 4, 2024
Kingmaker
Kingmaker: Secrets, Lies, and the Truth about Five Prime Ministers (Ithaka, 2024) by Sir Graham Brady provides an insider’s look at the power struggle…
October 25, 2024
Contested Money
Discussing money is always accompanied by controversy as well as enchantment. Debating what money is and how it performs its main functions in the con…
October 15, 2024
Commercial Banking in Kenya
Commercial Banking in Kenya: A History from Colonisation to Digital Age (Routledge, 2024) investigates the impact of commercial banks in Kenya right t…
October 7, 2024
The Capital Market of Manila and the Pacific Trade, 1668-1838
Economic history has always emphasized the importance of long-distance trade in the emergence of modern financial markets, yet almost nothing is known…
October 5, 2024
Underground Leviathan
Underground Leviathan: Corporate Sovereignty and Mining in the Americas (U Nevada Press, 2024) explores the emergence, dynamics, and lasting impacts o…
August 15, 2024
Money, Going Out of Style
What is money? Why are trillions of dollars, euros, pounds, and yen being printed, but not spent, and what does this reveal about the state of our soc…
April 19, 2024
As Gods Among Men
This provocative and interesting book has received considerable attention. Roaring reviews and interviews include The Financial Times (UK), The Teleg…
January 19, 2024
Privilege, Economy and State in Old Regime France
Privilege, Economy and State in Old Regime France: Marine Insurance, War and the Atlantic Empire Under Louis XIV (Boydell Press, 2023) closely analyse…
January 16, 2024
The Business and Technology of the Sheffield Armaments Industry, 1900-1930
Christopher Corker's The Business and Technology of the Sheffield Armaments Industry, 1900-1930 (U of York, 2016) focuses on four in-depth case studie…
January 14, 2024
Inside IBM
IBM was the world's leading provider of information technologies for much of the twentieth century. What made it so successful for such a long time, a…
December 13, 2023
Varieties of Capitalism Over Time
Varieties of Capitalism Over Time (Routledge, 2022) looks at how varieties of capitalism emerge over time and across different geographies, and is com…
November 20, 2023
Networks, Innovation, and Knowledge: the North Staffordshire Potteries, 1750-1851
During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the industrial district of the North Staffordshire Potteries dominated the British earthenware industr…
November 8, 2023
Cotton, Finance and Business Networks in a Globalised World
Firms and entrepreneurs were key drivers of the globalisation of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This thesis investigates commodity…
October 18, 2023
Colonial Ports, Global Trade, and the Roots of the American Revolution (1700-1776)
Jeremy Land's book Colonial Ports, Global Trade, and the Roots of the American Revolution (1700-1776) (Brill, 2023) takes a long-run view of the globa…
October 17, 2023
Civilian Specialists at War
World War I was the first great general conflict to be fought between highly industrial societies able to manufacture and transport immense quantities…
October 17, 2023
Using the Past
Recent scholarship in organisation studies has begun to address how organisations perceive and use their history. However, how organisations preserve …
October 8, 2023
Tokens
Platform capitalism is coming for the money in your pocket. Wherever you look, money is being re-placed by tokens. Digital platforms are issuing new k…
July 27, 2023
The Corporation and the Twentieth Century
The twentieth century was the managerial century in the United States. An organizational transformation, from entrepreneurial to managerial capitalism…
June 8, 2023
Virtuous Bankers
The eighteenth-century Bank of England was an institution that operated for the benefit of its shareholders--and yet came to be considered, as Adam Sm…
May 28, 2023
Better Money
The recent rise of dollar, pound, and euro inflation rates has rekindled the debate over potential alternative monies, particularly gold and Bitcoin. …
April 16, 2023
The Venice Arsenal
The Venice Arsenal: Between History, Heritage, and Re-Use (Routledge, 2022) reviews four decades of debate about restoring an industrial heritage site…
April 9, 2023
Easy Money
Economists endlessly debate the nature of legal tender monetary systems--coins and bills issued by a government or other authority. Yet the origins of…
March 12, 2023
Birth of Modern Facts
For over twenty years, James W. Cortada has pioneered research into how information shapes society. In Birth of Modern Facts: How the Information Revo…
November 28, 2022
The Handbook of Banking Technology
In The Handbook of Banking Technology (John Wiley & Sons, 2021), Walker and Morris provide a first comprehensive view of the systems that support a ba…