History of Banking II 1844-1959 Vol 2

The role of banks and banking systems in facilitating and shaping the pattern of economic growth has been much explored in an attempt to understand differing levels of economic success in industrializing and mature economies. This is a collection of contributions to the understanding of this role. VOLUME II Competition and Free Banking: 7 Remarks on the expediency of restricting the issue of promissory notes to a single issuing body (1844) 8 Capital, currency and banking (1847) 9 Bank monopoly: the cause of commercial crises (1864) 10 Seven Per Cent (1865) 11 The controversy on free banking between M. Wolowski and 12 An extract from The rationale of central banking and the free banking alternative (1936)