Rare Albion is an invented place but nonetheless real for all that. It is an imagined world where economic life and economic ideas are not as they appear today, but how they might appear tomorrow – or may already exist in an as-yet-to-be-discovered corner of our planet.

For in the rarefied regions of modern finance, where everything is remote and at a remove, the obviousness of life becomes blurred, its edges weaken, reminding the rational mind that it is never far from imagination, its inspiration of last resort.

Victor is Rare Albion’s chief economist… He is also the muse and alter ego of artist, economist and monetary historian, Christopher Houghton Budd into whose world this site provides a doorway, a threshold, however, that one crosses at one’s own peril!