1. Early years -- 2. Eltham school -- 3. Eton -- 4. Early working life -- 5. France and Napoleon -- 6. Serious illness -- 7. Travels -- 8. The bank and economic studies -- 9. More illness and travels -- 10. Monetary problems -- 11. More travels -- 12. Some family matters -- 13. Public life --...

George Warde Norman was a Director of the Bank of England from 1821 to 1872, a key figure behind the Bank Charter Act of 1844, and one of the founders of the Political Economy Club. In 1821 G.W. Norman began an essay on taxation as part of the utilitarian programme. His vision was for increased...

The literature of monetary economics has been characterised by controversy and changes in the received wisdom throughout its history. The controversies have related not merely to the effects on incomes and prices of changes in the money supply, but even to the question of whether causality runs...

In 1933 two books on competitive structure were published. One, extracted from a Harvard PhD filed six years earlier, dealt with the workings of the competitive process. Seeking not to supplant, but to supplement Marshall, this book by E. H. Chamberlin focused on an effort involving the use of a...