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Reprint of the original, first published in 1866. Including Cuts, in various States, for Books and Pamphlets, private Gentlemen, public Companies, Exhibitions, Races, Newspapers, Shop Cards, Invoice Heads, Bar Bills, Coal Certificates, Broadsides, and other miscellaneous Purposes, and Wood Blocks.
This history of sterling shows how the Bank of England defended the pound and managed foreign exchange.
This book contains essays presented at a conference held in November 2010 to mark the centenary of the famous 1910 Jekyll Island meeting of leading American financiers and the US Treasury. The 1910 meeting resulted in the Aldrich Plan, a precursor to the Federal Reserve Act that was enacted by Congress in 1913. The 2010 conference, sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and Rutgers University, featured assessments of the Fed's near 100-year track record by prominent economic historians and macroeconomists. The final chapter of the book records a panel discussion of Fed policy making by the current and former senior Federal Reserve officials.
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This book supports the deeper engagement of public lawyers in digital currency developments which threaten dramatic changes in the relationship between individuals and government authorities. No contemporary issue is more widely acknowledged and less understood than that of digital currencies. The voice of constitutional scholars, however, is crucially missing from prevailing digital money discourses. Private law scholars are grappling with the legal questions raised by digital currency models in property and contract. Public law scholars, by contrast, have yet to appreciate the significance of the moment. The challenge of understanding the technical dimensions of digital money innovations h...
This book offers a specialized and revealing study of the Bank of England's gilt-edged market operations during the mid-twentieth century.
'. . . the book contains an interesting collection of articles. . .' - Jan Kakes, De Economist 'In short Pierre Siklos has put together a book that is informative, thought provoking, and fun to read.' - Bruce D. Smith, Journal of Economic History The problems associated with chronically high inflation and hyperinflation continue to preoccupy policy makers and economists. In Great Inflations of the 20th Century, Pierre Siklos has gathered together major papers by a distinguished group of scholars who use historical episodes to understand and explain a key issue.