A History of Central Banking in Great Britain and the United States (Studies in Macroeconomic History)
Brand: Cambridge University Press
Categories: Books, Business & Money, Economics



Dimensions: 6 x 1.15 x 9 inches
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0521741319
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print length: 458 pages
Publication date: December 8, 2008
ISBN-13: 978-0521741316
Edition: 1st
subtitle: 1st Edition
author: Visit Amazon's John H. Wood Page search results John H. Wood
review: Editorial Reviews Review "This book will be a useful resource for both economic historians and monetary economists looking for a broad overview of the evolution of Anglo-American central banking and monetary theory." - EH.NET, Angela Redish, University of British Columbia Book Description This 2005 treatment compares the central banks of Britain and the United States. About the Author John H. Wood is R. J. Reynolds Professor of Economics at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He has also taught at the Universities of Birmingham, Pennsylvania, and Singapore and at Northwestern University. A Life Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge, and a Visiting Fellow of the American Institute for Economic Research, Professor Wood has also been a full-time or visiting economist at the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve Banks of Chicago, Dallas, and Philadelphia. His earlier studies of central banking include in 1967 the first application of the theory of economic policy to Federal Reserve behavior. Read more