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

This book examines the finance-growth nexus from historical and modern perspectives. It will be of interest to academics interested in economic and financial history as well as those interested in the recent financial crisis and its historical antecedents.

The role of the central bank has become a subject of intense debate in the wake of the recent global financial crisis. In this volume, experts and policy makers discuss what lessons we can draw by examining the evolution of the central bank over the past two centuries.

Based on a conference held as part of the US Federal Reserve System's centennial, this book critically evaluates the role of the Federal Reserve System in the international monetary system over the past one hundred years and looks ahead to the challenges it will face under the twenty-first-century fiat standard.

This authoritative guide to the transformation of the Bank of England into a modern inflation-targeting independent central bank examines a revolution in monetary and economic policy and the modernization of British institutions in the late twentieth century.