Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables
- Editorial Preface
- Author's Preface
- Chapter I Banks and Banking in the Early Nineteenth Century
- Chapter II The Bank Restriction Period, 1797–1821
- Chapter III Monetary Theory of the Bank Restriction Period
- Chapter IV The First Years of Resumption, the Crisis of 1825, and the Bank Charter Act, 1833
- Chapter V The Horsley Palmer Experiment, and the Bank Charter Act, 1844
- Chapter VI The Currency and Banking Controversy
- Chapter VII The Trial of the Bank Charter Act, 1844-58
- Chapter VIII The Great Boom, 1858-73
- Chapter IX The Great Depression, 1873-96
- Chapter X The Last Years of the Gold Standard, 1897–1913
- Chapter XI Monetary Theory of the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century
- Appendix Changes in Bank rate, 1876-1913, with the Amount of the Reserve of the Banking Department and the “Proportion” on the preceding Wednesday
- Index
Author's Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2016
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables
- Editorial Preface
- Author's Preface
- Chapter I Banks and Banking in the Early Nineteenth Century
- Chapter II The Bank Restriction Period, 1797–1821
- Chapter III Monetary Theory of the Bank Restriction Period
- Chapter IV The First Years of Resumption, the Crisis of 1825, and the Bank Charter Act, 1833
- Chapter V The Horsley Palmer Experiment, and the Bank Charter Act, 1844
- Chapter VI The Currency and Banking Controversy
- Chapter VII The Trial of the Bank Charter Act, 1844-58
- Chapter VIII The Great Boom, 1858-73
- Chapter IX The Great Depression, 1873-96
- Chapter X The Last Years of the Gold Standard, 1897–1913
- Chapter XI Monetary Theory of the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century
- Appendix Changes in Bank rate, 1876-1913, with the Amount of the Reserve of the Banking Department and the “Proportion” on the preceding Wednesday
- Index
Summary
Most of the work for this book was done while I held a research studentship at Christ's College, and the first debt which I have to acknowledge is, therefore, one of gratitude to the Master and Fellows. I should like to thank the Managers of the Ellen McArthur Fund for their permission to make slight alterations to chapters i to vii as originally submitted to them, and to add chapters viii to xi. Others to whom my grateful thanks are due are Mrs J. V. Robinson and Mr P. Sraffa, who have given me valuable criticism and advice, and enabled me to correct a number of mistakes (though the responsibility for the mistakes which remain is, of course, entirely my own); the staff of the University Press who, in spite of their own difficulties at this time, have always been willing to help with mine; and my wife, who has given me constant assistance from the preparation of rough notes to the compilation of the index.
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- The Theory and Practice of Central Banking, 1797–1913 , pp. xiii - xivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013