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The Central Bank and The Financial System: Palgrave Macmillan: This book contains a collection of twenty-one published articles that address the shifting purpose of central banks over time, assess attempts to preserve price stability and critique debates about the United Kingdom's financial regulation proposals.
The Macmillan Report "served as a venue in which J. M. Keynes challenged the 'Treasury View'", according to economist Friedrich von Hayek. [5] The report was largely authored by Keynes, and it recommended several Keynesian policies such as nationalization of the Bank of England (which later happened in 1946) and government regulation of ...
The Case Against the Fed is a 1994 book by Murray N. Rothbard criticising the United States Federal Reserve, fractional reserve banking, and central banks in general. [1] It details a history of fractional reserve banking and the influence that bankers have had on monetary policy over the last few centuries.
The Politics of Central Banks, (with Helen Thompson) Routledge, 1998. Electing the French President. The 1995 Presidential Election, Macmillan, 1996. [9] [10] Political Leadership in Liberal Democracies, Macmillan, 1995. The Role of the Prime Minister in France, 1981-1991, Macmillan, 1993. According to WorldCat, the book is held in 250 ...
His new book, "The Only Game in Town: Central Banks, Instability and Avoiding the Next Collapse” (Random House), is an excellent primer on how we got here and what to expect as the world struggles to cope with slower, less equal growth and the resulting populism, nationalism and ugly partisan politics that we see in countries from the U.S. to ...
Chown wrote several books on tax policy, is the author of “A History of Monetary Unions” (Routledge 2003), [9] [10] and has contributed a chapter, “Lessons of Monetary History”, to the IEA study, “The Euro – the Beginning, the Middle .. and the End?” (April 2013) and reviewed for Central Banking, Harold James “Making the ...
In his textbook, Monetary Policy and the Financial System, Paul M. Horvitz, the former Director of Research for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, stated, ...the member banks can exert some rights of ownership by electing some members of the Board of Directors of the Federal Reserve Bank [applicable to those member banks].
Sen. Carter Glass (D–Va.) and Rep. Henry B. Steagall (D–Ala.-3), the co-sponsors of the Glass–Steagall Act. The sponsors of both the Banking Act of 1933 and the Glass–Steagall Act of 1932 were southern Democrats: Senator Carter Glass of Virginia (who by 1932 had served in the House and the Senate, and as the Secretary of the Treasury); and Representative Henry B. Steagall of Alabama ...