Virtuous Bankers: A Day in the Life of the Eighteenth-Century Bank of England

Abstract

Matthew Jaremski of Utah State University reviews “Virtuous Bankers: A Day in the Life of the Eighteenth-Century Bank of England” by Anne L. Murphy. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: “Explores the eighteenth-century Bank of England's ability to command the confidence of a wide public while delivering a set of services that were essential to the English state, explaining how a private organization became the guardian of the public credit upon which the economic and geopolitical success of Britain was based.”