Mr. Benedikt Koehler, Educated at the Universities of Yale and Tübingen, Benedikt Koehler has had a career both in the City of London and is a former government economic adviser in Whitehall. He is the editor of A History of Financial Disasters 1857-1923 and is also the author of biographies of Ludwig Bamberger, one of the founders of Germany’s Deutsche Bank, and of Adam Müller, the nineteenth century political economist. His forthcoming book Early Islam and the Origins of Capitalism will be published later this year.

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