Appeasing Bankers: Financial Caution on the Road to War

by Jonathan Kirshner

Book Overview

In Appeasing Bankers, Jonathan Kirshner shows that bankers dread war--an aversion rooted in pragmatism, not idealism. "Sound money, not war" is hardly a pacifist rallying cry. The financial world values economic stability above all else, and crises and war threaten that stability. States that pursue appeasement when assertiveness--or even conflict--is warranted, Kirshner demonstrates, are often appeasing their own bankers. And these realities...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691134618
• ISBN13: 9780691134611
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.2"