Financial Narratives in Crisis

Review of Amin Samman, "History in Financial Times" (Stanford University Press, 2019).

Amin Samman’s History in Financial Times addresses the need to develop more nuanced ways to account for history, given that succession, as a model of making history, so clearly falls short. His emphasis on narrative throughout the book is hugely important at a moment of widespread narrative dysfunctionality in which the distinction between fact and fiction comes to be widely contested.