'European bankers in the interwar years' in M Kasuya (ed), Coping with Crisis. International financial institutions in the interwar period

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Deals with leading European bankers [largley ones in UK, France and Germany commercial banks] in interwar years, identifying them; exploring their competence, professionalism, relationships with other elite groups; considering their ability to make right strategic decisions; etc. Provides socioeconomic profiles - family background, education, career patterns, wider interests, etc; explores the extent to which they were able to shape the environment in which they operated; considers them as businessmen rather than just as bankers; considers the extent of European divergence or convergence