Central Banking in the Twentieth Century
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- Author: John Singleton, Sheffield Hallam University
- Date Published: January 2011
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Central banks are powerful but poorly understood organisations. In 1900 the Bank of Japan was the only central bank to exist outside Europe but over the past century central banking has proliferated. John Singleton here explains how central banks and the profession of central banking have evolved and spread across the globe during this period. He shows that the central banking world has experienced two revolutions in thinking and practice, the first after the depression of the early 1930s, and the second in response to the high inflation of the 1970s and 1980s. In addition, the central banking profession has changed radically. In 1900 the professional central banker was a specialised type of banker, whereas today he or she must also be a sophisticated economist and a public official. Understanding these changes is essential to explaining the role of central banks during the recent global financial crisis.
Read more- Covers a broad range of countries, including developing and smaller developed countries
- Provides an insight into the often misunderstood activities of central banks during their development since 1900
- Demonstrates how financial crises have shaped the central banking world, and continue to do so
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'A worldwide journey into the policies and politics of central banks in the twentieth century. Clear, informed and wide ranging, Singleton's book is an essential historical reflection on this highly topical issue.' Youssef Cassis, University of Geneva and Visiting Research Fellow in the Business History Unit, London School of Economics
See more reviews'This book provides a very useful examination of the twentieth-century history of central banking. At present, central banks are in the spotlight of culprits to blame for the recent financial crisis. A book like this puts the present re-evaluation of central banking's role in the post-crisis environment in a balanced historical perspective.' Michael Bordo, Rutgers University
'In a different and most welcome approach to the subject, John Singleton has provided a grand sweep across the world of central banking in the twentieth century. He shows how personalities and events contrived to effect two revolutions in that world.' Forrest Capie, official historian of the Bank of England
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- Date Published: January 2011
- format: Adobe eBook Reader
- isbn: 9780511985171
- contains: 1 b/w illus. 3 tables
- availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
Table of Contents
1. A beginner's guide to central banking
2. Very boring guys?
3. Wind in the willows: the small world of central banking c.1900
4. Something for everyone: new central banks, 1900–39
5. A series of disasters: central banking, 1914–39
6. The mysteries of central bank cooperation
7. The first central banking revolution
8. No time for cosmic thinkers: central banking in the 'Keynesian' era
9. Rekindling central bank cooperation in the Bretton Woods era
10. The goose that lays the golden egg: central banking in developing countries
11. The horse of inflation
12. The second central banking revolution: independence and accountability
13. Reputations at stake: financial deregulation and instability
14. Inflation targeting: the Holy Grail?
15. The long march to European monetary integration
16. A world with half a million central bankers.
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