1st Edition

The Art of Central Banking

By Ralph G. Hawtrey Copyright 1970
    488 Pages
    by Routledge

    488 Pages
    by Routledge

    First Published in 1970. A reprinting of the original collection of essays, from 1932 which begins with two essays describing French Monetary Policy and the Wall Street Speculation and Crisis of 1929. Moving onto an essay on Consumer's Income and Outlay and then the titular essay the art of central banking, looking at how a central bank is entrusted with the regulation of credit and money.

    Chapter 1 French Monetary Policy; Chapter 2 Speculation and Collapse in Wall Street; Chapter 3 Consumers’ Income and Outlay; Chapter 4 The Art of Central Banking; Chapter 5 Money and Index-numbers; Chapter 6 Mr. Keynes’s Treatise On Money; Chapter 7 International Short-term Investment; Chapter 8 Remedies for Unemployment1This memorandum was written in July, 1930, for the Committee on Finance and Industry, presided over by Lord Macmillan, and must be read as relating to the circumstances at that date. It was printed with the Committee’s Minutes of Evidence (vol. ii., pp. 315-21), and is here reproduced by permission of the Controller of H.M. Stationery Office.;

    Biography

    R. G. Hawtrey