Introduction -- Origin and purposes of the second bank -- The second bank's branch network and the state banking system -- The second bank and the "exchanges" : conquering space -- The "production" of monetary stability -- The second bank's specie market operations -- Conclusion

Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Changing strategies and global power in the long eighteenth century -- Eighteenth-century realities and historiographical approaches -- Administering the fiscal-military state : ordinary revenues : trusting in a consumers world -- Increasing...

During the period from 1945 to 2005, Britain underwent two deep-seated institutional transformations when political elites successfully challenged the prevailing wisdom on how to govern the economy. Attlee and Thatcher were able to effectively implement most of their political platforms. During...