200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book is a study of power. In particular, it is a study of governmental power in Britain and France. Its focus is the changing relationship between the government and the central bank in the two countries, and it examines the politics of this relationship since the time when the Bank of England and the Bank of France were first created. The book begins by considering the issue of governmental... Read more
Chapter 1 The Politics of Central Banks; Chapter 2 Core executive/central bank relations; Chapter 3 The core executive and the Bank of England (1694–1987); Chapter 4 The core executive and the Bank of England (1988–97); Chapter 5 The core executive and the Bank of France (1800–1981); Chapter 6 The core executive and the Bank of France (1981–97); Chapter 7 The political control of economic life;
Biography
Robert Elgie is Lecturer in Politics at the University of Limerick and author of The Role of the Prime Minister in France and Political Leadership in Liberal Democracies.,
Helen Thompson is University Lecturer in Politics at Cambridge University and author of The British Conservatives and the Exchange Rate Mechanism.
'...these authors have collected together useful information for the assessment of central bank independence.' - International Finance [3:1, 2000:pp. 167-185]
