Money over Two Centuries : Selected Topics in British Monetary History

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Capie, Forrest.

Contributor:

Wood, Geoffrey.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Currency question--Great Britain--History.

Monetary policy--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Monetary policy--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Monetary policy--Great Britain--History--21st century.

Monetary policy--History--19th century--Great Britain.

Monetary policy.

Monetary policy--History--20th century--Great Britain.

Monetary policy--History--21st century--Great Britain.

Money--History--19th century--Great Britain.

Money.

Money--History--20th century--Great Britain.

Money--History--21st century--Great Britain.

Banks and banking--History--19th century--Great Britain.

Banks and banking.

Banks and banking--History--20th century--Great Britain.

Banks and banking--History--21st century--Great Britain.

Local Subjects:

Currency question--Great Britain--History.

Monetary policy--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Monetary policy--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Monetary policy--Great Britain--History--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (378 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : OUP Oxford, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection of essays by the eminent financial and monetary historians Forrest Capie and Geoffrey Wood examines and offers explanations of the parts played by money and the banking system in the British economy over the last two centuries.Structured in three chronological parts, it covers: the period of the classical gold standard from 1870 until the First World War, and the associated key issues of the time; the troublesome interwar years, when there was a breakdown in the international economy, the Second World War and immediate post-War years; and the international dimensions of the pos

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1. Introduction; Part One; 2. Money, Interest Rates, and the Great Depression: Britain from 1870 to 1913 (with Professor Terence C. Mills); 3. Money Demand and Supply under the Gold Standard: the United Kingdom, 1870-1914; 4. Money in the Economy, 1870-1939; 5. Deflation in the British Economy, 1870-1939; 6. Did Velocity Look U-Shaped? Britain in the Nineteenth Century; Part Two; 7. What Happened in 1931? (with Professor Terence C. Mills); 8. Debt Management and Interest Rates: The British Stock Conversion of 1932

9. Policy-Makers in Crisis: A Study of Two Devaluations10. Price Controls in War and Peace: A Marshallian Conclusion; Part Three; 11. Modelling Institutional Change in the Payments System, and its Implications for Monetary Policy (with Dr Dimitrios Tsomocos); 12. Can EMU Survive Unchanged?; 13. Central Banks and Inflation: An Historical Perspective; 14. The IMF as an International Lender of Last Resort; 15. Financial Crises from 1803 to 2009: The Crescendo of Moral Hazard; 16. Central Banking in an Age of Uncertainty; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

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ISBN:

1-283-57643-0

9786613888884

0-19-162681-3

OCLC:

805109463