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"This book's combination of synthetic chapters on global experience and national case-studies provides new analysis of the spread of central banking beyond the European and North American "core." It highlights the role of "money doctors" and the impact of the Great Depression of the 1930s"--
List of contents
Part I. General: 1. Interwar central banks: a tour d' horizon Barry Eichengreen and Andreas Kakridis; 2. The ideology of central banking in the interwar years and beyond Harold James; 3. Habit not heredity: central banks and global order Patricia Clavin; 4. Institutionalizing central bank cooperation: the Norman Schacht vision and early experience of the bank for international settlements, 1929-33 Piet Clement; Part II. Specific: 5. Central bank policy under foreign control: the Austrian national bank in the 1920s Hans Kernbauer; 6. Sneaking nationalization: Hungary and the liberal monetary order, 1924-1931 György Péteri; 7. The bank of Poland and monetary policy in the interwar years Cecylia Leszczy¿ska; 8. From banking office to national bank: the establishment of the national bank of Czechoslovakia, 1919-1926 Jakub Kunert; 9. 'Nobody's child': the bank of Greece in the interwar years Andreas Kakridis; 10. The Bulgarian national bank, 1926-1935: revamping the institution, addressing the depression Roumen Avramov; 11. Macroeconomic policies and the new central bank in Turkey, 1929-1939 ¿evket Pamuk; 12. Latin American experiments in central banking at the onset of the great depression Juan Flores Zendejas and Gianandrea Nodari; 13. Central banks in the British dominions in the interwar period John Singleton; 14. Central banking and colonial control: India, 1914-1939 G. Balachandran.
About the author
Barry Eichengreen is George C. Pardee & Helen N. Pardee Chair and Distinguished Professor of Economics and Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research.Andreas Kakridis is Assistant Professor of Political Economy and Economic History at Panteion University in Athens, Greece. Scientific Advisor to the Historical Archives of the Bank of Greece. Member of the Academic Council of the European Association for Banking and Financial History (eabh). Trained in Oxford and Athens.
Summary
This book's combination of synthetic chapters on global experience and national case-studies provides new analysis of the spread of central banking beyond the European and North American 'core.' It highlights the role of 'money doctors' and the impact of the Great Depression of the 1930s.
Foreword
Provides new analysis of the spread of central banking beyond Western Europe and North America in the 1920s and 1930s.
