1st Edition

Controlling the Money Supply (Routledge Revivals)

By David Gowland Copyright 2013
252 Pages
by Routledge

252 Pages
by Routledge

252 Pages
by Routledge

Intended as a successor to Monetary Policy and Credit Control (Croom Helm, 1978; Routledge Revivals , 2013), this book, first published in 1982 with a revised edition in 1984, traces the changes in approach to monetary control in the U.K. throughout the 1970s, and the consequences for policy and the British economy. The book considers the widely-publicised proposals for ‘reserve base’ or... Read more

Preface;  1. Introduction  2. Techniques of Monetary Control  3. Techniques of Monetary Control II: Portfolio Constraints and the Reserve Base System  4. Techniques of Control III  5. The New Approach  6. The History of Competition and Credit Control  7. Competition and Credit Control: An Analysis  8. The New ‘New Approach’  9. The Labour Government’s Monetary Policy  10. Plus Ça Change?;  Bibliography;  Index

Biography

Gowland, David

'David Gowland, guru and myth-dispeller on monetary economics, has become "the authority" to many teachers concerning has monetary policy works ... The exposition is enviably lucid ...' - The Times Educational Supplement

'This blend of historical survey and economic analysis provides an excellent and ... readable guide to events and arguments for and against the policies successively adopted' - Public Money