Keynesianism vs. Monetarism And other essays in financial history

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