Bagehot - The Life and Times of the Greatest Victorian

As editor of The Economist, Walter Bagehot offered astute commentary on the financial issues of his day and his name lives on in an eponymous weekly column. During the upheavals of 2007-9, the chairman of the Federal Reserve had the name of this Victorian icon on the tip of his tongue. 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 financial crises.

About the author

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.

Summary

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: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9780393358285
• ISBN: 978-0-393-35828-5
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Editors, Journalists, Publishers, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Biography: general, Biography: historical, political & military, Biografien: Literatur, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Media & Communications, Biography / Autobiography, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), c 1800 to c 1900, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, 1837–1901 (Victorian period), Biography: historical, political and military, Media, Information & Communication Industries