Mervyn king the end of alchemy5/18/2023 ![]() The Jamesian donnée of his book is a remark made towards the end of his governorship. He also has a hinterland, quoting at the outset two of TS Eliot’s most haunting lines: “Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?/ Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?” – lines that any education minister should have pinned up on their office wall. He grew up in the West Midlands he is not privately educated his devotion to Aston Villa runs longer, deeper and more constant than the prime minister’s and for many years, before joining the bank in 1991, he was an academic economist. But then, Mervyn King was never a governor out of central casting. F ormer governors of the Bank of England do not, with the odd 19th-century exception, write books – least of all books like The End of Alchemy, whose bibliography starts with Dean Acheson, the US secretary of state under Truman, and finishes with Stefan Zweig, taking in Thomas Carlyle, Friedrich Hayek and Arthur Waley on the way. ![]()
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