Central bank, peripheral industry : the Bank of England in the provinces, 1826-1913
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Central bank, peripheral industry : the Bank of England in the provinces, 1826-1913
Leicester University Press, 1990
Available at 31 libraries
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Bibliography: p. [151]-157
Includes indexes
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Description
The provincial branches of the Bank of England were, for much of the 19th century, among the most important banking institutions in the workshop of the world and close study of the role of the Bank in the provinces is highly revealing. This provides much evidence for the view that the needs of manufacturing industry were of little interest to the Bank parlour and argues that the Bank's much-vaunted independence from government caused chronic damage to the management of the national economy.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 The Bank of England provincial branches: setting up the branches 1826/29
- branches of a central bank - establishing the Bank of England note 1826/29-1844, the Bank and the 1884 regulation act
- branches of a commercial bank - the commercial decline begins, the crisis in bill discounting, the new upswing in lending 1889-1913. Part 2 Limits to central bank policy: from the "Palmer Rule" to Peel's act
- the Bank of England and the mid-nineteenth century crisis
- tenderness for domestic trade and industry?. Part 3 The bank and industry - the example of Birmingham, 1880-1905: the crisis in bill discounting
- the rise of the "Industrial Branch" 1880-1893
- a London scandal and the reverberations in Birmingham 1893/94
- the old policy under new management 1894-1897
- the end of the industrial branch. Part 4 The development of central bank policy and the English provinces - a reassessment.
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