Mervyn King

Murder, fraud and bankruptcy

Mervyn King sees it as a great unrolling drama – of murder, fraud, bankruptcy, riots and cannonballs

issue 16 December 2017

  • Till Time’s Last Sand: A History of the Bank of England 1694–2013

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    Bloomsbury, pp. 879

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