International Finance

A pound in your pocket is more than money: it is the power to buy goods, hire a doctor—or pay a parson to bury you. What happens when that power is lent to build a factory, and its owner asks for a return?

Writing in the early twentieth century, Hartley Withers turns international finance into a question about work, saving and fairness. He follows money from the hands of savers to the borrowers who would build factories, railways and harbours, and challenges the charge that interest is simply wealth taken from workers. To Withers, capital is stored-up labour—but does that make every reward it earns deserved?

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