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The Bank of England and Public Policy, 1941–1958

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In this book, originally published in 1992, the official history of the Bank of England was continued into the late wartime and early postwar periods. The author's position as a central banker by trade and a former Executive Director of the Bank put him in an ideal position to carry out this analysis. His account examines mainly how the Bank moved on after the hurried nationalisation of 1946 and led a vigourous though often frustrated life in the postwar years, when sterling was subject to recurrent external weakness and when domestic monetary policy was beset by difficulties of content and conduct. The Bank's relationship with the Treasury is central to the story, but Mr Fforde also examines its evolving relationship with the financial community and with central banks overseas. The Bank's contribution to public policy, in a frequently controversial field, is explained and assessed.

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  • Fforde,John, 1992. "The Bank of England and Public Policy, 1941–1958," Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press, number 9780521391399, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:cbooks:9780521391399
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    1. Aikman, David & Bush, Oliver & Davis, Alan, 2016. "Monetary versus macroprudential policies causal impacts of interest rates and credit controls in the era of the UK Radcliffe Report," Bank of England working papers 610, Bank of England.
    2. Jim Tomlinson, 2005. "Managing the economy, managing the people: Britain c.1931–70," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 58(3), pages 555-585, August.
    3. Yuleng Zeng, 2020. "Bluff to peace: How economic dependence promotes peace despite increasing deception and uncertainty," Conflict Management and Peace Science, Peace Science Society (International), vol. 37(6), pages 633-654, November.
    4. Marcelo Paiva Abreu, 2014. "A ‘blank cheque'? Portuguese Second World War sterling balances, 1940–73," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 67(2), pages 535-555, May.
    5. Goodhart, Charles A. E. & Needham, Duncan J., 2018. "Historical reasons for the focus on broad monetary aggregates in post-World War II Britain and the ‘Seven Years War’ with the IMF," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 87364, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    6. Singleton,John, 2010. "Central Banking in the Twentieth Century," Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press, number 9780521899093, September.
    7. Ella Kavanagh, 2018. "Evolving Central Bank thinking: the Irish Central Bank, 1943-69," Working Papers 18022, Economic History Society.
    8. Footman, John, 2014. "The Court of the Bank of England," Bank of England Quarterly Bulletin, Bank of England, vol. 54(1), pages 28-36.
    9. Teupe, Sebastian, 2020. "Keynes, Inflation, and the Public Debt: "How to Pay for the War" as a Policy Prescription for Financial Repression?," Working Papers 16, German Research Foundation's Priority Programme 1859 "Experience and Expectation. Historical Foundations of Economic Behaviour", Humboldt University Berlin.
    10. Taylor, Alan M. & Aikman, David & Bush, Oliver, 2016. "Monetary Versus Macroprudential Policies: Causal Impacts of Interest Rates and Credit Controls in the Era of the UK Radcliffe R," CEPR Discussion Papers 11353, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    11. Einar Lie & Eivind Thomassen, 2016. "A Norwegian fixation: explaining cheap money in Norway, 1945--1986," Scandinavian Economic History Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 64(2), pages 160-174, June.

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