Lombard Street de Walter Bagehot

Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market

Walter Bagehot

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 iun 2010

First published in 1873, this classic book is a timeless excursion through Lombard Street, the original district of finance and the birthplace of the money market. Written by esteemed British economist and historian Walter Bagehot, it delivers observations, insights, and truths that ring as true today as they did more than a century ago.

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Prefatory note; Advertisement; 1. Introductory; 2. A general view of Lombard Street; 3. How Lombard Street came to exist, and why it assumed its present form; 4. The position of the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the money market; 5. The mode in which the value of money is settled in Lombard Street; 6. Why Lombard Street is often very dull, and sometimes extremely excited; 7. A more exact account of the mode in which the Bank of England has discharged its duty of retaining a good bank reserve, and of administering it effectually; 8. The government of the Bank of England; 9. The joint stock banks; 10. The private banks; 11. The bill brokers; 12. The principles which should regulate the amount of the banking reserve to be kept by the Bank of England; 13. Conclusion; Appendix.