1st Edition
Policy Makers on Policy The Mais Lectures
312 Pages
6 B/W Illustrations
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Routledge
In this volume, a wide range of leading policy makers and practitioners reflect on the aims and objectives of monetary policy and on what it can achieve, The contributors include: * Tony Blair * Sir Samuel Brittan * Gordon Brown * Kenneth Clarke * Eddie George * Geoffrey Howe * Nigel Lawson * Peter Liley * Gordon Richardson * Lionel Robbins * Jonathon Sacks * Hans Tietmeyer. Policy... Read more
1: Introduction: twenty-five years of monetary policy; 2: Reflections on the conduct of monetary policy; 3: Objectives of monetary policy: past and present; 4: The fight against inflation; 5: Monetary policy in Britain and Europe; 6: Financial and monetary integration; 7: 'The British Experiment'; 8: The conditions for full employment; 9: Benefits and costs: Securing the future for social security; 10: The changing world of work in the 1990s; 11: Some presumptions of economic liberalisation; 12: Markets, governments and virtues
Biography
Forrest H. Capie and Geoffrey E. Wood are both Professors of Banking at City University Business School
