There are European bankers who vie in power with the dukes and princes of other days, and there are traffickers everywhere whose title comes from the ledger and not the sword, fit successors to counts, barons, and knights.
Sumner points out that modern bankers hold power comparable to historical nobility, reflecting changes in social hierarchy.
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