Samuel Knafo

The Making of Modern Finance

Liberal Governance and the Gold Standard

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Produktbeschreibung

The Making of Modern Finance is a path-breaking study of the construction of liberal financial governance and demonstrates how complex forms of control by the state profoundly transformed the nature of modern finance.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9780415633482
• ISBN-10: 0415633486
• Artikelnr.: 42025194

Autorenporträt

Samuel Knafo is a Lecturer in Global Political Economy at the University of Sussex, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Golden Touch of Liberal Financial Governance PART I:
Reassessing Liberal Financial Governance 1. The Gold Standard and the
Paradox of Liberal Financial Governance 2. The 'Modern' Aspects of English
Financial Governance in the 19th century PART II: Lineages of Sound
Monetary Policy 3. The Origins of Sound Monetary Policy in England
(13th-16th Century) 4. The Financial Revolution and the Bank of England
(1600-1696) Part III : The Gold Standard and the Construction of Liberal
Financial Governance 5. Gold Monometallism and Modern Banking (1696-1797)
6. The Gold Standard and the Lender of Last Resort (1797-1844) 7. The
Internationalisation of the Gold Standard (1844-1914) Conclusion: The
Making of Modern Finance and the Politics of Liberal Governance