Money, Politics and Power - Banking and Public Finance in Wartime England, 1694?96

Sommario

1. Introduction
Part I: The institutional and economic context
2. England’s wartime system of public finance
3. The inception of the Bank of England
4. Parliamentary measures against clipping and bullion exports, 1689-95
5. The growing problem of war remittances
6. Land-bank projects, 1694-95
Part II: The political and policy narrative
7. The administrative debate on the state of the currency, September–November 1695
8. The act for remedying the ill state of the coin, November 1695–January 1696
9. Banking projects and public finance, early 1696
10. Guineas and the National Land Bank, February–April 1696
11. Connecting the dots: monetary policies as means to political ends
12. Monetary and financial crisis in England and the plight of the English army in Flanders, spring – summer 1696
13. Concluding remarks
Index

Info autore

Richard A. Kleer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics, and Dean of the Faculty of Arts, at the University of Regina, Canada.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Richard A. Kleer, Richard A. (University of Regina Kleer
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 15.05.2017
• EAN: 9781138036666
• ISBN: 978-1-138-03666-6
• Pagine: 254
• Serie: Financial History
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