'Techno-nationalism, the Post Office and the creation of Britain's national giro' in B Batiz-Lazo et al (eds), Technological Innovation in Retail Finance. International historical perspectives
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- Author(s) Booth, Alan, & Mark Billings
- Publication type Chapter
- Year published 2011
- Pages pp155-72
- Publisher Routledge
- Place Published New York NY
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- Name Government intervention exc legislation & regulation
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Focus is on the 'nexus of neomercantilist relationships between the British government , its most long established trading agency, the General Post Office,and the British electronics industry to computerise some financial services and hasten domestic economic modernization'. This is observed through the establishment of the National Giro Bank, located in the GPO with its Post Office Savings Bank, in 1968. Has sections: 'Technology and the British State'; Techno-nationalism, the white heat and the Post Office'; 'Steps towards the Giro'; '[Anthony] Benn, the Post Office and expenditure on computers, 1960-70'