1st Edition

Keynesianism vs. Monetarism And other essays in financial history

Edited By Charles P. Kindleberger Copyright 1985
344 Pages
by Routledge

344 Pages
by Routledge

344 Pages
by Routledge

This book was first published in 1985.

Introduction

PART 1: KEYNESIANISM VS MONETARISM

1. Was Adam Smith a Monetarist or a Keynesian?

2. Michel Chevalier (1806-1879), the Economic de Tocqueville

3. Keynesianism vs. Monetarism in eighteenth and nineteenth century France

PART 2: COMPARE AND CONTRAST

4. Financial institutions and economic development: A comparison of Great Britain and France in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries

5. Integration of financial markets: the British and French experience

6. British financial reconstruction, 1815-22 and 1918-25

7. The international monetary politics of near-great power: Two French episodes, 1926-1936 and 1960-1970

8. Collective memory vs. rational expectations: some historical puzzles in macro-economic behaviour

PART 3: HISTORICAL MODELS

9. The cyclical pattern of long-term lending

10. Key currencies and financial centres

11. The financial aftermath of war

12. Historical perspective on today's third-world debt problem

PART 4: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

13. International monetary reform in the nineteenth century

14. International propagation of financial crises: the experience of 1888-93

15. Sweden in 1850 as an 'impoverished sophisticate': comment

PART 5: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

16. A structural view of the German inflation

17. The international causes and consequences of the Great Crash

18. The 1929 World Depression in Latin America - from the outside

19. Keynesianism vs. Monetarism in the 1930s Depression and recovery

20. Banking and industry between the two wars: an international comparison

21. 1929: Ten lessons for today

Biography

Charles P. Kindleberger