About the Silly Series
Vincent Vickers was a Director of the Bank of England, a Director of the Vickers Ltd., and a Deputy-Liutenant of the City of London. He had exceptional inside knowledge and experience of trading and banking. This knowledge convinced him that the present economic system is so dangerously unwise that he felt it his duty during the later years of his life to work whole-heartedly for its reform.
In 1926 Vickers told the Governor of the Bank of England, Montagu Norman, that henceforth he would fight Montagu and the Gold Standard and the Bank of England Policy until Vickers died. And he did. Vincent Vickers died on November 3rd, 1939 after a long illness. All the while he was sick he was working and writing on economic reform.
Before his death Vickers started The Silly Series, which he intended to be a series of short humorous leaflets on economics. He never got beyond No. 1 before his death. Arian Forrest Nevin has continued the Silly Series started by Vickers.
