Michael Collins

Michael Collins

Michael Collins is a professor of financial history at Leeds University Business School and is an expert on bank-corporate relations and central banking. His current research projects include ‘Bank Provision of SME Finance, 1940-70’ and ‘Institutional Investors and the Development of the British Capital Market, 1900-1960’. His recent publications include Michael Collins & Mae Baker, Commercial Banks and Industrial Finance in England and Wales, 1860-1913.

Articles by Michael Collins

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Tribes of clutter

  • 20 November 2008
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A new study of contemporary Londoners' possessions and the values they attach to them reveals a shift of allegiance away from wider society and towards the individual household

Even Blacker Monday?

  • 19 October 2007

Despite its severity, the 1987 crash had a relatively mild impact on the real economy. But what about the present day situation?

Green heroes

The top ten

20 green heroes and villains: Heroes

Green villains

The top ten

20 green heroes and villains: Villains

Bjorn Lomborg

Cloud control

Cloud control

What if...

Hugh Gaitskell lived

What if... Hugh Gaitskell had lived

James Macintyre

Brown at war

Like it or not, Brown’s a war leader

Will Self

On brands

We’re all with the brand

Interview

Omar Bin Laden

The NS Interview: Omar Bin Laden

Film review

A Serious Man

A Serious Man (15)

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Will Baroness Ashton be an effective EU foreign minister?

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