Description
Challenging accepted wisdom of monetary theory, this study of the theory of monetary policy in England analyzes the behavior of the banking system and the difficulties of central bank control, and argues that money creation is an endogenous process, determined partly by the price level. Introduction; Part I: The Behaviour of the Financial System; The Macroeconomic Behaviour of the Banking System; The Behaviour of Interest Rates: the Theoretical Background; The Behaviour of Interest Rates Continued; The Behaviour of Exchange Rates; Government Transactions, Money, and Interest Rates; Part II: Monetary Control and the Course of the Aggregates: UK Monetary Policy since 1971; Central-bank Rate as an Instrument of Monetary Control; Monetary Base Control; The Corset, Overfunding, and Banking Supervision; Monetary Growth since the mid-1960s; Part III: Conclusions: The Limitations and Role of Monetary Policy; Monetary Policy Without Monetary Targets; Bibliography; Index
