Bagehot: The Life and Times of the Greatest Victorian

by James Grant

Book Overview

During the upheavals of 2007-09, the chairman of the Federal Reserve had the name of a Victorian icon on the tip of his tongue: Walter Bagehot. Banker, man of letters, inventor of the Treasury bill, and author of Lombard Street, the still-canonical guide to stopping a run on the banks, Bagehot prescribed the doctrines that--decades later--inspired the radical responses to the world's worst financial crises.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393609197
• ISBN13: 9780393609196
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"