1st Edition

The History of Banking II, 1844-1959 Vol 10

By Duncan M Ross Copyright 1998
    272 Pages
    by Routledge

    The role of banks and banking systems in facilitating and shaping the pattern of economic growth has been much explored in an attempt to understand differing levels of economic success in industrializing and mature economies. This is a collection of contributions to the understanding of this role.

    VOLUME X Central Banking, Interest Rates and Montary Policy: 61 Central banks and the state (1939) 62 Rules versus authorities in monetary policy (1936) 63 Extracts from Central banking after Bagehot (1957) 64 The stabilization of prices and business (1925) 65 What can central banks really do? (1925) 66 The influence of the rate of interest on prices (1907) 67 An extract from A treatise on money, volume one: the pure theory of money (1930) 68 An extract from A century of bank rate (1938) 69 Monetary policy and commercial bank portfolios (1940) 70 The implications of fiscal policy for monetary policy and the banking system (1942) 71 Summaries of replies to questions on effects of interest rates ( 1938). E. Meade and PWS. Andrews 72 The Impact of the credit squeeze on small and medium sized manufacturing firms (1957) 73 Interest rates and the central bank (1951) Index

    Biography

    Duncan M Ross