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Two Views of the Lender of Last Resort: Thornton and Bagehot

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Henry Thornton and Walter Bagehot were both advocates of discretionary monetary policy, especially as regards the Bank of England's role as a lender of last resort, but they differed on many details of the case. Where Bagehot thought that the Bank's central position in the financial system was purely the product of a specific monopoly privileges, Thornton also saw it as the desirable and natural outcome of the operations of banking; where Bagehot located the productivity of banking in credit markets, Thornton stressed the importance of liability side of the system's balance sheet; and where Bagehot took the desirability of gold convertibility for granted, Thornton was willing to trade off this goal against the maintenance of monetary stability.

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  • David Laidler, 2002. "Two Views of the Lender of Last Resort: Thornton and Bagehot," University of Western Ontario, Departmental Research Report Series 20029, University of Western Ontario, Department of Economics.
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    14. Laurent Le Maux, 2018. "Central banking and finance: the Bank of England and the Bank Act of 1844," Post-Print hal-02854521, HAL.
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    • B10 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought through 1925 - - - General
    • E40 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - General
    • E50 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - General

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