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
  • 9 comments

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?

The interview

Preview: Ken Livingstone: “The world is run by monsters”

The interview

Preview: Boris Johnson: “I’ll tell you what makes me angry – lefty crap”

On Syria

Intervention in Syria won’t work, so how do we stop Assad?

GOP race so far

Infographic: Republican primary race 2012

Mind your B-sides

Mind your B-sides

Time to rethink

Time to rethink, not reassure

Who minds?

Latter Day Taint?

Alistair Darling

Alistair Darling, the Miliband dilemma and what the party must do next
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