Bank of England, 1950s to 1979
Details:
- Author(s) Capie, Forrest
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2010
- Pages 891pp; illus
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Place Published Cambridge
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Scholarly commissioned history based on extensive use of the Bank's archives and interviews with its personnel. Has sectio after Radcliffe'; 'Other activities and performance'; 'Sterling from devaluation to Smithsonian'ns: 1] Introductin and overview'; 'The Bank in the 1950s'; 'The monetary setting and the Bank'; 'The Bank's external responsibilities to 1964'; 'From crisis to 'crucifixion''; 'Domestic monetary policy after Radcliffe'; 'Sterling from devaluation to Smithsonian'; 'Road to competition and credit control'; 'Competition and credit control'; 'The Secondary Banking Crisis'; 'Banking supervision'; 'Monetary targets and monetary control'; 'The Bank and sterling in the 1970s'; 'The Bank's freedom to operate'. Touches on businesses such as Rolls-Royce Ltd; Burmah Oil Co Ltd; Slater Walker Securities Ltd; Wallace Brothers Ltd; Edwards Bates & Sons