Monetary and banking history : essays in honour of Forrest Capie

xxii, 316 p.

Routledge international studies in money and banking ; 62

Includes bibliographical references and index

Front Cover; Monetary and Banking History; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Notes on contributors; Preface: Mervyn King; Introduction: Nicholas Crafts, Terence C. Mills and Geoffrey Wood; Part I: Writing history; 1. The commissioned historians of the Bank of England: Charles Goodhart; 2. The new monetary and financial history: Barry Eichengreen; Part II: Crisis management; 3. English financial markets in the 1830s:informationnetworks, risk assessment and banking crisis: Mae Baker and Michael Collins

4. Implementing Bagehot's rule in a world of derivatives:the Banque de France as a lender of last resort in the nineteenth century:Eugene N. White5. Banking crises and the rules of the game: Charles W. Calomiris; Part III: Money and interest rates; 6. Money and interest rates in the United States during the Great Depression: Peter Basile, John Landon-Laneand Hugh Rockoff; 7 Two-and-a-halfcenturies of British interest rates, monetary regimes and inflation: Terence C. Mills and Geoffrey Wood; 8. Monetary aggregates restored? Capie and Webber revisited: Alec Chrystal and Paul Mizen

Part IV: Implications of economicintegration9. Does the euro need a fiscal union? Some lessons from history: Michael Bordo, Lars Jonung and Agnieszka Markiewcz; 10. Making a central bank without a state: Harold James; 11. Openness, protectionism and Britain's productivity performance over the long run: Stephen Broadberry and Nicholas Crafts; 12. The price-cost mark-up in the UK: a long-run perspective: Nicholas Crafts and Terence C. Mills; Appendix: Forrest Capie's publications; Index

Writing history -- The commissioned historians of the Bank of England / Charles Goodhart -- The new monetary and financial history / Barry Eichengreen -- Crisis management -- English financial markets in the 1830s: information networks, risk assessment and banking crisis / Michael Collins and Mae Baker -- Implementing Bagehot's rule in a world of derivatives : the Banque de France as a lender of last resort in the nineteenth century / Eugene White -- Banking crises and the rules of the game / Charles Calomiris -- Money and interest rates -- Money and interest rates in the United States during the Great Depression / Peter Basile, John Landon-Lane, and Hugh Rockoff -- Two and a half centuries of British interest rates, monetary regimes, and inflation / Terence Mills and Geoffrey Wood -- Monetary aggregates restored? : Capie and Webber revisited / Alec Chrystal and Paul Mizen -- Implications of economic integration -- Does the euro need a fiscal union? : some lessons from history / Michael Bordo, Lars Jonung, and Agnieszka Markiewcz -- Making a central bank without a state / Harold James -- Openness, protectionism, and Britain's productivity performance over the long-run / Stephen Broadberry and Nicholas Crafts -- The price-cost mark-up in the UK : a long-run perspective / Nichoals Crafts and Terence Mills

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