1st Edition

Monetary and Banking History Essays in Honour of Forrest Capie

Edited By Geoffrey Wood, Terence Mills, Nicholas Crafts Copyright 2011
338 Pages 41 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

338 Pages 41 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

352 Pages
by Routledge

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 also a former editor of the Economic History Review, one of the leading academic journals in this discipline. This... Read more

Preface Mervyn King  Introduction Nicholas Crafts, Terence Mills and Geoffrey Wood  Part 1: Writing History  1. The Commissioned Historians of the Bank of England Charles Goodhart  2. The New Monetary and Financial History Barry Eichengreen  Part 2: Crisis Management  3. English Financial Markets in the 1830s: Information Networks, Risk Assessment and Banking Crisis Michael Collins and Mae Baker  4. 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  5. Banking Crises and the Rules of the Game Charles Calomiris  Part 3: Money and Interest Rates  6. Money and Interest Rates in the United States during the Great Depression Peter Basile, John Landon-Lane and Hugh Rockoff  7. Two and a Half Centuries of British Interest Rates, Monetary Regimes and Inflation Terence Mills and Geoffrey Wood  8. Monetary Aggregates Restored? Capie and Webber revisited Alec Chrystal and Paul Mizen  Part 4: Implications of Economic Integration  9. Does the Euro Need a Fiscal Union? Some Lessons from History Michael Bordo, Lars Jonung and Agnieszka Markiewcz  10. Making a Central Bank Without A State Harold James  11. Openness, Protectionism and Britain’s Productivity Performance Over the Long-Run Stephen Broadberry and Nicholas Crafts  12. The Price-cost Mark-up in the UK: A Long-run Perspective Nichoals Crafts and Terence Mills

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