Financiers and the Nation
Details:
- Author(s) Johnston, Thomas
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1935
- Pages 2nd ed; 206pp
- Publisher Methuen
- Place Published London
Topics:
- Name Crime & misdemeanour inc fraud, theft & sharp practice
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
First published 1934. Written by a prominent Scottish socialist, journalist, MP and minister. 21 short chapters. Something of a polemic. Reviews swindles and collapses and suggests other banking forms as remedial measures -municipal banking, Post Office Bank, co-operative banking, state owned 'Bank of Great Britain'. Refers to Farrows Bank. Horatio Bottomley, Lee Bevan, etc