1st Edition

Decision Making (Routledge Revivals) A case study of the decision to raise the Bank Rate in September 1957

By Richard A. Chapman Copyright 1968
128 Pages
by Routledge

128 Pages
by Routledge

128 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1968, Richard Chapman’s pioneering work illuminates the process of decision making by analysis of a particular example: the decision to raise the Bank Rate in September, 1957. The legal responsibility for a decision may be easy to pinpoint; in this case the Court of Directors of the Bank of England bear this but six weeks of negotiation separate their formal statement from... Read more

1. Introduction  2. Background to the Decision and the Tribunal  3. Leading up to the Decision  4. How the Decision was Made  5. The Bank of England and the Treasury  6. Some Factors in Decision Making

Biography

Richard A. Chapman

‘Mr Chapman’s case study is a pioneering work. He looks at how and why the decision was reached and gives an exciting reconstruction of how the decision was taken’ – The Times