1st Edition
Keynesianism vs. Monetarism And other essays in financial history
This book was first published in 1985.
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