Poetry, and economics
It has taken me some weeks to read Mary Poovey’s Genres of the Credit Economy: Mediating Value in 18th and 19th Century Britain. She is a Professor of English, so writing in a different academic...
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One of my correspondents, Brett Christophers of Uppsala University, just asked me which books I’d read on the history of finance that had helped me think about the financial present in a new way. (He...
View ArticleBernanke, banks and bugs
The dreaded flu going around has struck me, so I’ve been paging through a book it’s easy to hold while lying in bed feeling wan. It’s The Federal Reserve and the Financial Crisis, some lectures given...
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