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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789985303321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-83531-8

1-283-10474-1

9786613104748

1-136-83532-6

0-203-83229-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (332 p.)

Collana

Routledge international studies in money and banking ; ; 62

Altri autori (Persone)

CapieForrest

CraftsN. F. R

MillsTerence C

WoodGeoffrey D. <1945->

Disciplina

332.109

Soggetti

Money - History

Banks and banking - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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