Robert Yee
Lecturer in Yale's program on ethics, politics, and economics and author of The City's Defense, a study of the Bank of England's role in remaking economic governance between 1914 and 1939.
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Jan 30, 2026 • 37min
Robert Yee, "The City's Defense: The Bank of England and the Remaking of Economic Governance, 1914-1939" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Robert Yee, a Yale lecturer and economic historian of finance and central banking. He traces how the Bank of England transformed after World War I. Short takes cover its hiring of economists, overseas missions to build central banks, interventions in industry, tensions with the Treasury and the Fed, and policies that sustained sterling and London’s financial primacy.
Jan 30, 2026 • 37min
Robert Yee, "The City's Defense: The Bank of England and the Remaking of Economic Governance, 1914-1939" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Robert Yee, lecturer at Yale in ethics, politics, and economics and author of The City's Defense, studies the Bank of England's transformation after WWI. He traces its turn toward hiring economists, shaping gold‑standard debates, exporting central banking, and extending influence into industrial policy and exchange controls. The conversation follows how these moves bolstered sterling and London’s financial standing.
