Credit and Power: The Paradox at the Heart of the British National Debt by Simon Sherratt

Credit and Power: The Paradox at the Heart of the British National Debt

Routledge Studies in Modern British History

Simon Sherratt

256 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction economics history politics
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This book reveals the surprising role that credit, money created ex nihilo by financiers, played in raising the British government’s war loans between 1793 and 1815. Using often overlooked contemporary objections to the National Debt a startling p...

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