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Portrait of an old lady : turmoil at the Bank of England
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ISBN: 0140105026 Year: 1988 Publisher: Harmondsworth Penguin books


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The theory and practice of central banking, 1797-1913
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ISBN: 1316530353 1107690862 Year: 2013 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Originally published in 1943, this book presents a rigorous study of central banking from both theoretical and historical perspectives during the period 1797 to 1913. This parallel treatment of monetary events and monetary theories reveals not only the connection between the facts and the theories, but also the occasional gaps between them. Numerous tables and an appendix section are also included. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the development of banking and economic history.


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Lombard Street : a description of the money market
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ISBN: 1139093622 1108035817 Year: 2012 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Walter Bagehot (1826-77), the influential political and economic essayist, wrote a number of books that became standards in their respective fields. He attended University College, London, where he studied mathematics and gained a master's degree in intellectual and moral philosophy. He was called to the bar, but instead chose a career in his father's banking business. He wrote widely on literature, economics and politics, co-founding the National Review in 1855. He became editor-in-chief of The Economist in 1860 and remained in that post until his death. This work, published originally in 1873 and described by J. M. Keynes as 'an undying classic', is a masterpiece of economics. It explains the world of finance and banking, concentrating on crisis management, and its ideas are as relevant today as ever, especially in the face of the global financial crisis that emerged in 2007.


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Making a modern central bank : The Bank of England 1979-2003
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ISBN: 9781108835015 9781108799492 1108799493 9781108875189 1108835015 1108875181 1108892337 1108890695 Year: 2020 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Making a Modern Central Bank examines a revolution in monetary and economic policy. This authoritative guide explores how the Bank of England shifted its traditional mechanisms to accommodate a newly internationalized financial and economic system. The Bank's transformation into a modern inflation-targeting independent central bank allowed it to focus on a precisely defined task of monetary management, ensuring price stability. The reframing of the task of central banks, however, left them increasingly vulnerable to financial crisis. James vividly outlines and discusses significant historical developments in UK monetary policy, and his knowledge of modern European history adds rich context to archival research on the Bank of England's internal documents. A worthy continuation of the previous official histories of the Bank of England, this book also reckons with contemporary issues, shedding light on the origins of growing backlash against globalization and the European Union.


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On financial reform ; : A plain statement of the power of the Bank of England, and of the use it has made of it
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ISBN: 1107109922 1108068480 Year: 2014 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Prior to its publication in 1830, the draft of this work by Sir Henry Parnell, later Baron Congleton (1776-1842), was praised by John Stuart Mill, who said he could 'not see that it is possible to lay down the principles of political economy more broadly'. Chair of the select committee on public income and expenditure during the Duke of Wellington's first ministry, Parnell called for greater retrenchment and reduced taxation. He also argues here that 'the passage of merchandise from one state to another ... ought to be as free as air and water', denouncing the supporters of protection as 'among the greatest enemies of mankind'. A later pamphlet by Parnell, A Plain Statement of the Power of the Bank of England (1832), highly critical of the Bank's monopoly, is included in this reissue. His Treatise on Roads (1833) is reissued separately in the Cambridge Library Collection.


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The Bank of England and the government debt : operations in the gilt-edged market, 1928-1972
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ISBN: 1108605834 1108627390 110849983X 1108584306 Year: 2019 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The Bank of England and the Government Debt recounts the surprising history of the Bank of England's activities in the government securities market in the mid-twentieth century. The Bank's governor, Montagu Norman, had a decisive influence on government debt management policy until he retired in 1944, and established an auxiliary market in government securities outside the Stock Exchange during the Second World War. From the early 1950s, the Bank, concerned about inadequate market liquidity, became an increasingly active market-maker in government securities, rescuing the commercial market-makers in the Stock Exchange several times. The Bank's market-making activities often conflicted with its monetary policy objectives, and in 1971, it curtailed them substantially, while avoiding the damaging effects on liquidity in the government securities market that it had feared. Drawing heavily on archival research, William A. Allen sheds light on little-known aspects of central-banking and monetary policy.


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John Locke and the Bank of England
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ISBN: 1000386341 1003019625 1000386244 036785919X 9781003019626 9780367776183 0367776189 9780367859190 Year: 2021 Publisher: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge,

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"John Locke was one of the first shareholders of the Bank of England and participated in Parliamentary debates surrounding its creation. He had a key role in the monetary reform of 1696. This book examines Locke's thought in relation to credit, banking regulation, the monetary and financial system, the gold standard and the principles of Natural Right. It also establishes a link between Locke's economic and financial ideas and his political philosophy. John Locke and the Bank of England will be of interest to advanced students and researchers of central banking, financial history, the history of economic thought, and political economy"--


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Panacea, Curse, or Nonevent? Unconventional Monetary Policy in the United Kingdom
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ISBN: 1451917384 146233962X 1282843761 9786612843761 1451873107 1452780331 Year: 2009 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund,

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The Bank of England's current "quantitative easing" strategy has given rise to a controversial debate about the effects and risks of unconventional monetary policy. The present paper makes two contributions to this debate. First, it provides a systematic overview of unconventional policy options, drawing from existing theoretical and empirical studies. Against this backdrop, it then analyzes the BoE's specific policies, discussing their effectiveness so far and putting them into a cross-country context. Tentative evidence on the BoE's quantitative easing is moderately encouraging, although the strategy is neither guaranteed to succeed nor as perilous as some of its detractors claim.

The foreign exchange market of London : development since 1900
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ISBN: 041534901X 0415647835 9786610225576 1134273959 1280225572 020332269X 9780203322697 9780415349017 9781134273904 1134273908 9781134273942 1134273940 9781134273959 9780415647830 9781280225574 6610225575 9781134273928 1134273924 Year: 2005 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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Foreign Exchange is big business in the City of London. At the last official count, turnover on the London foreign exchange market averaged a staggering 504 billion a day. No other financial centre in the world even comes close to matching this total. Thirty one per cent of global foreign exchange activity takes place in the United Kingdom, compared with only sixteen per cent in the United States and nine per cent in Japan.However, this has not always been so. A hundred years ago, the London foreign exchange market played second fiddle to more important centres in New York, Paris an

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