The Great Financial Crisis of 1914
Monday, March 31, 2014
Based on his new book, Professor Roberts provides a fascinating insight into the financial crisis of 1914 and compares it with the recent financial crisis.
Professor Richard Roberts, Institute of Contemporary British History,
King’s College London.
specialises in financial history
with contemporary relevance.
His latest book is: Saving
the City: The Great Financial
Crisis of 1914 (Oxford University Press, 2013).
Mervyn King has called it ‘lucid and masterly.’
Richard has had faculty positions at Sussex
and London universities, as well as fellowships
at Cambridge, Princeton and the Bank of
England. He also worked for BP as an economist.
His many publications on financial history
include histories of the Bank of England,
Schroders and Orion, a Euromarkets consortium
bank. His contemporary books Wall Street
(2002) and The City (2008) are published by The
Economist. Collaborations with David Kynaston
include co-authorships of City State (2001) and
the forthcoming official history of HSBC (2015).
Special reports for City consultants Lombard
Street Research include long-term perspectives
on the breakup of monetary unions, fiscal
consolidations and international trade
confrontations. His most recent report was: Did
Anyone Learn Anything from the Equitable Life?
Lessons and Learning from Financial Crises
(2012).
Other activities include editorial adviser on
the digitisation of the Financial Times and The
Economist; and Advisory Board memberships
of a Gulbenkian Foundation project and OMFIF
(Official Monetary and Financial Institutions
Forum).
