Britain and the Sterling Area

Britain and the Sterling Area
Author: Dr Catherine Schenk
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 176
Release: 1994-06-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134860544

To complement current work on the British domestic economy in the post-war period it is necessary to examine external economic policy. Whilst considerable work has been done on Britain's relations with Europe and with America, the complexities of the sterling area have remained obscure. This volume makes a significant contribution to unravelling the strands of British external economic policy in the post-war period.

Britain and the Sterling Area

Britain and the Sterling Area
Author: Dr Catherine Schenk
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1994-06-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134860552

To complement current work on the British domestic economy in the post-war period it is necessary to examine external economic policy. Whilst considerable work has been done on Britain's relations with Europe and with America, the complexities of the sterling area have remained obscure. This volume makes a significant contribution to unravelling the strands of British external economic policy in the post-war period.

The Sterling Area

The Sterling Area
Author: British Information Services
Publisher:
Total Pages: 8
Release: 1945
Genre: Sterling area
ISBN:

Britain and the Sterling Area

Britain and the Sterling Area
Author: Catherine Ruth Schenk
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1994
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 041509772X

To complement current work on the British domestic economy in the post-war period it is necessary to examine external economic policy. Whilst considerable work has been done on Britain's relations with Europe and with America, the complexities of the sterling area have remained obscure. This volume makes a significant contribution to unravelling the strands of British external economic policy in the post-war period.

Sterling and British Policy

Sterling and British Policy
Author: Susan Strange
Publisher: London ; New York : Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 414
Release: 1971
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

The Decline of Sterling

The Decline of Sterling
Author: Catherine R. Schenk
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 455
Release: 2010-05-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1139487256

The demise of sterling as an international currency was widely predicted after 1945, but the process took thirty years to complete. Why was this demise so prolonged? Traditional explanations emphasize British efforts to prolong sterling's role because it increased the capacity to borrow, enhanced prestige, or supported London as a centre for international finance. This book challenges this view by arguing that sterling's international role was prolonged by the weakness of the international monetary system and by collective global interest in its continuation. Using the archives of Britain's partners in Europe, the USA and the Commonwealth, Catherine Schenk shows how the UK was able to convince other governments that sterling's international role was critical for the stability of the international economy and thereby attract considerable support to manage its retreat. This revised view has important implications for current debates over the future of the US dollar as an international currency.

Banking on Sterling

Banking on Sterling
Author: Ophelia Eglene
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2011
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN: 0739144103

Banking on Sterling: Britain's Independence from the Euro Zone, by Ophelia Eglene, provides an in-depth analysis of the British policy on the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) over the past twenty years. Eglene demonstrates how the Conservative government of John Major and the Labour government of Tony Blair implemented policies that had the same overriding goals. The first of their shared goals was to continue being involved in decisions on the remaining details of the EMU and to avoid discrimination in the European Union by appearing as a member state willing to embrace the full European project at an indeterminate point. The second goal was to address the conflicting preferences of domestic economic actors with an ambiguous policy aimed at buying time. Pressure on the British government came from both the business and financial sectors on the question of EMU membership. While the business community was divided on the euro, there was one sector, export-oriented producers, strongly in favor. The financial sector, for its part, needed more time to clearly assess where its interests lay, and it insisted that the government not rush a decision one way or the other. Banking on Sterling demonstrates that the government--no matter which party was in power--always had in mind the welfare of the financial sector. When the conclusion was reached in London that its financial sector would benefit more from an offshore position than as a member of the EMU, the British government provided both direct and indirect compensation to the export-oriented business sector that had definitely lost the battle for the euro. Ophelia Eglene's Banking on Sterling: Britain's Independence from the Euro Zone effectively shows the unequal influence of business and finance on the British economy.

The Political Economy of Imperial Relations

The Political Economy of Imperial Relations
Author: Alex Sutton
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-08-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781137373977

The Political Economy of Imperial Relations offers a much needed historical and theoretical intervention into the relationship between Britain and Malaya after the Second World War. It challenges existing accounts and details a strong continuity in this relationship from 1945 until 1960.

Credibility and the International Monetary Regime

Credibility and the International Monetary Regime
Author: Michael D. Bordo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2012-04-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0521811333

This book presents ten studies which combine historical narrative with econometrics to analyze the role of credibility in four monetary regimes.

The British End of the British Empire

The British End of the British Empire
Author: Sarah Stockwell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2018-08-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1107070317

The end of empire in Britain itself is illuminated through explorations of its impact on key domestic institutions.