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Money over two centuries : selected topics in British monetary history
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Money over two centuries : selected topics in British monetary history

Author: Forrest Capie; Geoffrey Edward Wood
Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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This collection of essays by the eminent financial and monetary historians Capie and Wood examines and offers explanations of the parts played by money and the banking system in the British economy  Read more...

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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Forrest Capie; Geoffrey Edward Wood
ISBN: 9780199655120 019965512X
OCLC Number: 781497183
Description: 367 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 1. Introduction --
Part One --
2. (with Professor Terence C. Mills): Money, Interest Rates, and the Great Depression: Britain from 1870 to 1913 --
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. The Long Run Behaviour of Velocity in the UK --
Part Two --
7. (with Professor Terence C. Mills): What Happened in 1931? --
8. Debt Management and Interest Rates: the British stock conversion of 1932 --
9. Policy Makers in Crisis: A Study of Two Devaluations --
10. Price Controls in War and Peace: A Marshallian Conclusion --
Part Three --
11. (with Dr Dimitrios Tsomocos): Modelling Institutional Change in the Payments System and its Implications for Monetary Policy --
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.
Responsibility: by Forrest Capie and Geoffrey Wood.
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Those who would understand the development of British monetary policies, and appreciate how we got where we are, can do no better than begin with this book. John H. Wood, EH.net

 
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