John Singleton

The authors re-examine the Bank's early history and the deepening crisis of the late 1970s and early 1980s, explore intellectual developments at the Bank and the crucial change of government in 1984, and explain how the challenges of the 1980s prompted the Bank to take the opportunity to refashion its systems and design a new institutional policy framework that targeted inflation.

Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Lancaster, 1986.

Star Wood Leigh, une jeune fille de vingt ans, part à l'assaut d'Hollywood avec pour seules armes : un short riquiqui et un tee-shirt ultramoulant. Joyeuse et coquine, elle fait tourner la tête de ses nombreux admirateurs et décroche un rôle dans un feuilleton à succès intitulé Alerte à Hawaii. Premier roman.

"In the early postwar era, Britain enjoyed a very close economic relationship with Australia and New Zealand, through their common membership of the Sterling Area and the Commonwealth Preference Area. This book examines the breakdown of this relationship in the 1950s and 1960s. Australia and New Zealand's determination to protect their manufacturing industries reduced the opportunities for British exporters. At the same time, the slow growth of the British food market, combined with the subsidization of British farmers, reduced the profits of Australian farmers. Australia and New Zealand were drawn towards Japan and the USA for markets and capital supplies. British frustration with Australian economic demands helped to fuel interest in European integration in the mid-1950s. Special emphasis is given to the implications for Australia and New Zealand of Britain's proposal for a European free trade area, and of Harold Macmillan's unsuccessful bid to join the EEC in 1961-3."--BOOK JACKET.

"Central banks are powerful but poorly understood organisations. In 1900 the Bank of Japan was the only central bank to exist outside Europe but over the past century central banking has proliferated. John Singleton here explains how central banks and the profession of central banking have evolved and spread across the globe during this period. He shows that the central banking world has experienced two revolutions in thinking and practice, the first after the depression of the early 1930s, and the second in response to the high inflation of the 1970s and 1980s. In addition, the central banking profession has changed radically. In 1900 the professional central banker was a specialised type of banker, whereas today he or she must also be a sophisticated economist and a public official. Understanding these changes is essential to explaining the role of central banks during the recent global financial crisis"--