History of the London Discount Market

History of the London Discount Market
Author: W. T. C. King
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2013-10-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136921265

First Published in 1972. The London Discount Market is unique, and its existence has contributed more than any other single factor to the elaboration of what may legitimately be called the Anglo-Saxon tradition in Central Banking technique. The bill of exchange has existed for centuries in its classical late Victorian form by many decades. This book assesses how in no other country in the world did the same relationships evolve between the Central institution and the Money Market.

History of the London Discount Market

History of the London Discount Market
Author: W. T. C. King
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2013-10-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136921338

First Published in 1972. The London Discount Market is unique, and its existence has contributed more than any other single factor to the elaboration of what may legitimately be called the Anglo-Saxon tradition in Central Banking technique. The bill of exchange has existed for centuries in its classical late Victorian form by many decades. This book assesses how in no other country in the world did the same relationships evolve between the Central institution and the Money Market.

The Foreign Exchange Market of London

The Foreign Exchange Market of London
Author: John Atkin
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2004-10-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134273959

This book charts the inexorable rise of foreign exchange in London over the past century and is the first full-length study of an amazing transformation.

Capital Failure

Capital Failure
Author: Nicholas Morris
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2014-08-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 019102077X

Adam Smith's 'invisible hand' relied on the self-interest of individuals to produce good outcomes. Economists' belief in efficient markets took this idea further by assuming that all individuals are selfish. This belief underpinned financial deregulation, and the theories on incentives and performance which supported it. However, although Adam Smith argued that although individuals may be self-interested, he argued that they also have other-regarding motivations, including a desire for the approbation of others. This book argues that the trust-intensive nature of financial services makes it essential to cultivate such other-regarding motivations, and it provides proposals on how this might be done. Trustworthiness in the financial services industry was eroded by deregulation and by the changes to industry structure which followed. Incentive structures encouraged managers to disguise risky products as yielding high returns, and regulation failed to curb this risk-taking, rent-seeking behaviour. The book makes a number of proposals for reforms of governance, and of legal and regulatory arrangements, to address these issues. The proposals seek to harness values and norms that would reinforce 'other-regarding' behaviour, so that the firms and individuals in the financial services act in a more trustworthy manner. Four requirements are identified which together might secure more strongly trustworthy behaviour: the definition of obligations, the identification of responsibilities, the creation of mechanisms which encourage trustworthiness, and the holding to account of those involved in an appropriate manner. Financial reforms at present lack sufficient focus on these requirements, and the book proposes a range of further actions for specific parts of the financial industry.

Banking Reform and the Federal Reserve, 1863-1923

Banking Reform and the Federal Reserve, 1863-1923
Author: Robert Craig West
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2019-06-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1501743848

Offering new perspectives on the early years of the Federal Reserve system, this book evaluates the banking reform movement and its results. Professor West analyzes the system's first decade in the context of the thought of the period and of what preceded the Federal Reserve Act of 1913. Neither the Act itself nor the actions of the system it created, he maintains, can be understood without knowledge of the banking reform attempts. In this clearly written account of the American central bank, the author demonstrates the relationship between the evolution of monetary ideas and the evolution of an organizational structure. His book will be of great value to students and scholars of economic history, money and banking, institutional economics, and American history.

Banks and Markets

Banks and Markets
Author: Vivian Stanley Anthony
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Publishers
Total Pages: 186
Release: 1979
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Meat, Commerce and the City

Meat, Commerce and the City
Author: Robyn S Metcalfe
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2015-10-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1317321316

This study examines the struggle between Smithfield market's supporters and detractors and argues that this demonstrates a major shift in the way the urban landscape came to be used.