Controlling Credit: Central Banking and the Planned Economy in Postwar France, 1948-1973

ISBN-13: 9781108400084 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 352 str.

Eric Monnet

Opis

Monnet analyzes monetary and central bank policy during the mid-twentieth century through close examination of the Banque de France.

Recenzje

'Controlling Credit is a valuable book and will remain an inescapable reference in the emerging literature about postwar central banking.' Stefano Ugolini, Journal of Interdisciplinary History

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I. Institutionalizing Credit: Introduction to Part I: chronology and methodology; 1. French credit policies before 1945; 2. The nationalization of credit from 1945 to the late 1950s; 3. Development then gradual de-institutionalization: the 1960s and 1970s; Part II. Managing Credit: 4. Monetary policy without interest rates. Domestic macroeconomic effects and international issues of credit controls; 5. Blurred lines. The two faces of Banque de France loans to the Treasury (1948–73); 6. Financing the postwar Golden Age. The Banque de France, 'investment credit' and capital allocation; 7. The rise and fall of national credit policies. Implications for the history of European varieties of capitalism and monetary integration; Conclusion.