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Klappentext This book deals with the development of financial institutions, changes in methods of finance and the role of monetary control in socialist economic management. Zusammenfassung Originally published in 1973! this book deals with the development of financial institutions! changes in methods of finance and the role of monetary control in socialist economic management. The structure and activity of financial institutions were deliberately adapted to changes in policy planning techniques used in socialist economies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Abbreviations; Part I. Background Information: 1. Monetary control: meaning, problems of comparative treatment, some relevant Western concepts; 2. The origins of socialist banking and monetary control; 3. Banking and credit in Poland before 1939; Part II. Banking and Monetary Control in Centralised Socialist Planning: 4. Banking and monetary policy in Poland before the financial reforms of 1948-50; 5. The financial reforms of 1948-50 and the emergence of a centralised financial system; 6. Monetary control in practice; Part III. Reforms of Banking and Monetary Control During Attempts at Decentralised Planning: 7. A prelude to decentralisation - credit reforms at the end of the Six Year Plan; 8. In search of a monetary policy in decentralised planning. I. An experiment with stringent monetary control; 9. In search of a monetary policy in decentralised planning. II. The adoption of lenient credit control; 10. The reforms of 1965: a timid step towards credit finance of investment; 11. The banking and credit reforms of 1969-70: a bolder step towards credit finance of investment; 12. Some concluding observations; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.
