Money and power : essays in honour of L.S. Pressnell

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Money and power : essays in honour of L.S. Pressnell

edited by P.L. Cottrell and D.E. Moggridge

Macmillan, 1988

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"The writings of Leslie Sedden Pressnell": p. xvi-xvii

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

  • English banks and business cycles, 1848-80 / Michael Collins
  • Credits, morals, and sunspots / P.L. Cottrell
  • Structure and performance in British banking, 1870-1939 / Forrest Capie
  • The mechanism of the supply of money in the United Kingdom, 1873-1913 / Shizuya Nishimura
  • Keynes as a monetary historian / D.E. Moggridge
  • A merchant bank at war, 1914-18 / Kathleen Burk
  • Creating the myth of consensus / R. Boyce
  • A shaft of Baltic pine / Ian Drummond and Norman Hillmer
  • Cheap money and debt management in Britain, 1932-51 / Susan Howson

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A collection of essays written by former students, colleagues and friends of Professor Leslie Pressnell in honour of his 65th birthday and his scholarship in the field of financial history. The first five essays are concerned with British monetary history over the last half of the nineteenth century, examining in particular the relationships between banks and the trade cycle, concentration and profitability in British banking, and the money supply. The second half of the book, consisting of four essays, has as its theme the inter-relations of finance and politics through examinations of financing of the First World War, the attitude of English manafacturers towards exchange rate policy in the 1920s, North Atlantic commercial and financial negotiations in the 1930s and finally, the problems of public debt management from the early 1930s until the early 1950s. These essays provide new estimates of monetary and financial variables from original research on primary material. Essays dealing with developments after 1914 aim to bring out the primacy of financial problems for politicians.

Table of Contents

  • English banks and business cycles, 1848-1880, M.Collins
  • credit, morals and sunspots - the financial boom of the 1860s and trade cycle theory, P.L.Cottrell
  • structure and performance in British banking, 1870-1939, F.Capie
  • the mechanism of the supply of money in the United Kingdom, 1873-1913, F.Capie
  • Keynes as a monetary historian, D.E.Moggridge
  • a merchant bank at war - the house of Morgan 1914-18, K.Burk
  • creating the myth of consensus - public opinion and Britain's return to the gold standard in 1925, R.Boyce
  • a shaft of Baltic pine - negotiating the Anglo-American-Canadian trade agreements of 1938, I.Drummond and N.Hillmer
  • cheap money and debt management in Britain, 1932-51, S.Howson.

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