Samuel Knafo

The Making of Modern Finance (eBook, PDF)

Liberal Governance and the Gold Standard

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Produktbeschreibung

The Making of Modern Finance is a path-breaking study of the construction of liberal financial governance and demonstrates how complex forms of control by the state profoundly transformed the nature of modern finance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134066155
• Artikelnr.: 39263580

Autorenporträt

Samuel Knafo is a Lecturer in Global Political Economy at the University of Sussex, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Golden Touch of Liberal Financial Governance PART I:
Reassessing Liberal Financial Governance 1. The Gold Standard and the
Paradox of Liberal Financial Governance 2. The 'Modern' Aspects of English
Financial Governance in the 19th century PART II: Lineages of Sound
Monetary Policy 3. The Origins of Sound Monetary Policy in England
(13th-16th Century) 4. The Financial Revolution and the Bank of England
(1600-1696) Part III : The Gold Standard and the Construction of Liberal
Financial Governance 5. Gold Monometallism and Modern Banking (1696-1797)
6. The Gold Standard and the Lender of Last Resort (1797-1844) 7. The
Internationalisation of the Gold Standard (1844-1914) Conclusion: The
Making of Modern Finance and the Politics of Liberal Governance

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Introduction: The Golden Touch of Liberal Financial Governance PART I: Reassessing Liberal Financial Governance 1. The Gold Standard and the Paradox of Liberal Financial Governance 2. The 'Modern' Aspects of English Financial Governance in the 19^th century PART II: Lineages of Sound Monetary Policy 3. The Origins of Sound Monetary Policy in England (13^th-16^th Century) 4. The Financial Revolution and the Bank of England (1600-1696) Part III : The Gold Standard and the Construction of Liberal Financial Governance 5. Gold Monometallism and Modern Banking (1696-1797) 6. The Gold Standard and the Lender of Last Resort (1797-1844) 7. The Internationalisation of the Gold Standard (1844-1914) Conclusion: The Making of Modern Finance and the Politics of Liberal Governance

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"Samuel Knafo's The Making of Modern Finance represents the culmination of many years of research and is a fine piece of scholarship in its own right. It draws the reader into a historical narrative which is at once immaculately researched and compellingly presented. Knafo uses these admirable writing traits to prick the conscience of the IPE community. We all too easily revert to repeating conventional wisdoms of history rather than getting our hands dirty with sustained original historical analysis. This book reveals to us the collective error of our ways in relation to perhaps IPE's most cherished conventional wisdom: that concerning the nineteenth-century gold standard. Far from being the automatic pilot of IPE folklore, the supreme tool for disembedding finance and providing it with its own autonomous logic, The Making of Modern Finance shows that it was the mechanism which made possible the interventionist techniques of modern central banking. We all have much to learn from this thoughtful analysis, whether our interest is in the nineteenth century, today's economy or the path that was followed to move from one to the other. Contrary to what so much of the IPE literature now encourages us to think about it, in Knafo's account the gold standard was used as a means of exerting societal control over free flows of money. I look forward to this account having a major influence on the relevant literature." - Matthew Watson, Professor of Political Economy, University of Warwick, UK

"The common image of the gold standard as a depoliticized monetary regime has long been difficult to square with historical evidence. In this innovative analysis, Samuel Knafo presents a systematic argument for why this image needs to be abandoned: the emergence of the gold standard went hand-in-hand with greater state power over money and finance. This important reinterpretation of monetary and financial history deserves a wide audience." - Eric Helleiner, Faculty of Arts Chair in International Political Economy, University of Waterloo, Canada