Bagehot

Informationen zum Autor James Grant founded Grant’s Interest Rate Observer , a financial markets journal, and authored Bagehot and The Forgotten Depression , which won the Hayek Prize. His writing has appeared in the Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal . He lives in Brooklyn, New York. Klappentext During the upheavals of 2007-9, Ben Bernanke, 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, Bagehot prescribed the doctrines that-decades later-inspired the radical responses to the world's worst financial crises. In James Grant's colourful and groundbreaking biography, Bagehot appears as both an ornament to his own age and a muse to our own. Brilliant and precocious, he was influential in political circles, making high-profile friends, including William Gladstone-and enemies in Lord Overstone and Benjamin Disraeli. As an essayist on wide-ranging topics, he won the admiration of Matthew Arnold and Woodrow Wilson. He was also a misogynist, and while he opposed slavery, he misjudged Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War. As editor of the Economist, he offered astute commentary on the financial issues of his day and his name lives on in an eponymous weekly column. Zusammenfassung The definitive biography of a banker, essayist and editor of the Economist, by an acclaimed financial historian.

Product details

• Authors: James Grant
• Publisher: Norton and Co Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9780393609196
• ISBN: 978-0-393-60919-6
• Dimensions: 168 mm x 241 mm x 32 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Editors, Journalists, Publishers, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Biography: historical, political & military, Biography: business & industry, Economics, Banking, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Biography: business and industry, Biography: historical, political and military