In 1950, Partridge produced A Dictionary of the Underworld, British and American, Being the Vocabulary of Crooks, Criminals, Racketeers, Beggars and Tramps, Convicts, the Commercial Under-World, the...
He calculates that the so-called Icelandic “financial elite” consisted of no more than 30 people. The new banks funded the politicians who had privatised them and global expansion came to follow...