Keynesianism vs. Monetarism

First Published in 2005. This volume offers an extended original series of essays in the field of financial history, assembled from lectures, articles for Festschriften and symposia, commissioned articles, and a few papers for the normal run of periodicals, including one or two obscure ones. They form a complement to the author’s previous work Financial History of Western Europe (1984). Introduction Part 1: Keynesianism vs Monetarism 1. Was Adam Smith a Monetarist or a Keynesian? 2. Michel Chevalier (1806-1879), the Economic de Tocqueville 3. Keynesianism vs. Monetarism in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century France Part 2: Compare and Contrast 4. Financial Institutions and Economic Development: A Comparison of Great Britain and France in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 5. Integration of Financial Markets: The British and French Experience 6. British Financial Reconstruction, 1815-22 and 1918-25 7. The International Monetary Politics of Near-Great Power: Two French Episodes, 1926-1936 and 1960-1970 8. Collective Memory vs. Rational Expectations: Some Historical Puzzles in Macro-Economic Behaviour Part 3: Historical Models 9. The Cyclical Pattern of Long-Term Lending 10. Key Currencies and Financial Centres 11. The Financial Aftermath of War 12. Historical Perspective on Today's Third-World Debt Problem Part 4: The Nineteenth Century 13. International Monetary Reform in the Nineteenth Century 14. International Propagation of Financial Crises: The Experience of 1888-93 15. Sweden in 1850 as an 'Impoverished Sophisticate': Comment Part 5: The Twentieth Century 16. A Structural View of the German Inflation 17. The International Causes and Consequences of the Great Crash 18. The 1929 World Depression in Latin America - From the Outside 19. Keynesianism vs. Monetarism in the 1930s Depression and Recovery 20. Banking and Industry Between the Two Wars: An International Comparison 21. 1929: Ten Lessons for Today