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Central banking before 1800 : a rehabilitation / Ulrich Bindseil.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bindseil, Ulrich, 1969- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Banks and banking, Central--History.
- Banks and banking, Central.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- Central banking has a long and colourful history from which important lessons can be drawn. This text reviews the policy objectives and financial operations of 25 central banks established before 1800 to show that many of today's central banking controversies date as far back as this time.
- Contents:
- Introduction and overview
- Current views on the nature and origins of central banking
- Issuing financial money of ultimate quality
- Lending to, and relation with the government
- Lending to private borrowers and other private assets
- Lender of last resort
- Early central banks' economics and balance sheets
- Rehabilitation.
- Notes:
- This edition previously issued in print: 2019.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on June 15, 2020).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-258993-8
- 0-19-188442-1
- 0-19-258992-X
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