Money, Politics and Power: Banking and Public Finance in Wartime England, 1694-96

ISBN-13: 9780367888824 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 236 str.

Richard A. Kleer

Opis

This book examines one of the most famous economic-policy episodes in British history, offering an entirely novel and very sophisticated account. It explains key monetary and financial institutions in a highly accessible way, builds a novel interpretation of the creation and early years of the Bank of England from previously undiscovered archiva

Spis treści

1. Introduction

Part I: The institutional and economic context

2. England’s wartime system of public finance

3. The inception of the Bank of England

4. Parliamentary measures against clipping and bullion exports, 1689-95

5. The growing problem of war remittances

6. Land-bank projects, 1694-95

Part II: The political and policy narrative

7. The administrative debate on the state of the currency, September–November 1695

8. The act for remedying the ill state of the coin, November 1695–January 1696

9. Banking projects and public finance, early 1696

10. Guineas and the National Land Bank, February–April 1696

11. Connecting the dots: monetary policies as means to political ends

12. Monetary and financial crisis in England and the plight of the English army in Flanders, spring – summer 1696

13. Concluding remarks

Index

O autorze

Richard A. Kleer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics, and Dean of the Faculty of Arts, at the University of Regina, Canada.