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Record Nr.

UNINA9910573824303321

Autore

Keynes John Maynard <1883-1946, >

Titolo

The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes . Volume 1 Indian currency and finance [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press for the Royal Economic Society, , 2013

ISBN

1-139-52019-9

Edizione

[[New edition].]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xx, 184 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes

Disciplina

332.4/954

Soggetti

Currency question - India

Banks and banking - India

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Sommario/riassunto

Keynes's first book, published in 1913, was Indian Currency and Finance. He had served briefly from 1906 to 1908 in the India Office in Whitehall; then as the administrative link between the Government of India and the British parliament. He quickly became involved in the problems of the Indian currency and the then important and fascinating issues concerning the gold-exchange standard. He continued to work on these problems, with the encouragement and help of his former colleagues, after he had returned to Cambridge. The book which resulted, and his known mastery of the problems involved, led to Keynes's first major incursion into public life as a member of the (Austen Chamberlain) Royal Commission on Indian Finance and Currency. The important contributions he made to its work are recorded in detail in Volume 15 of this series, which forms a complement to this volume.