Monetary and banking history : essays in honour of Forrest Capie / edited by Geoffrey Wood, Terence C. Mills and Nicholas Crafts.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Capie, Forrest.

Crafts, N. F. R.

Mills, Terence C.

Wood, Geoffrey D., 1945-

Series:

Routledge international studies in money and banking ; 62.

Routledge international studies in money and banking ; 62

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Money--History.

Money.

Banks and banking--History.

Banks and banking.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (332 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Forrest Capie is an eminent economic historian who has published extensively on a wide range of topics, with an emphasis on banking and monetary history, particularly in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but also in other areas such as tariffs and the interwar economy. He is a former editor of the Economic History Review, one of the leading academic journals in this discipline. Under the steely editorship of Geoffrey Wood, this book brings together a stellar line of of contributors - including Charles Goodhart, Harold James, Michael Bordo, Barry Eichengreen, Charles Calo

Contents:

Writing history

The commissioned historians of the Bank of England / Charles Goodhart

The new monetary and financial history / Barry Eichengreen

Crisis management

English financial markets in the 1830s : information networks, risk assessment and banking crisis / Michael Collins and Mae Baker

Implementing Bagehot's rule in a world of derivatives : the Banque de France as a lender of last resort in the nineteenth century / Eugene White

Banking crises and the rules of the game / Charles Calomiris

Money and interest rates

Money and interest rates in the United States during the Great Depression / Peter Basile, John Landon-Lane, and Hugh Rockoff

Two and a half centuries of British interest rates, monetary regimes, and inflation / Terence Mills and Geoffrey Wood

Monetary aggregates restored? : Capie and Webber revisited / Alec Chrystal and Paul Mizen

Implications of economic integration

Does the euro need a fiscal union? : some lessons from history / Michael Bordo, Lars Jonung, and Agnieszka Markiewcz

Making a central bank without a state / Harold James

Openness, protectionism, and Britain's productivity performance over the long-run / Stephen Broadberry and Nicholas Crafts

The price-cost mark-up in the UK : a long-run perspective / Nichoals Crafts and Terence Mills.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-136-83531-8

1-283-10474-1

9786613104748

1-136-83532-6

0-203-83229-9

9780203832295

OCLC:

768081314