The Evolution of Central Banks employs a wide range of historical evidence and reassesses current monetary analysis to argue that the development of non-profit-

This book is the first complete survey of the evolution of monetary institutions and practices in Western countries from the Middle Ages to today. It radically

This volume contains two major papers prepared for the Bank of England's Tercentenary Symposium in June 1994. The first, by Forrest Capie, Charles Goodhart and

This 2005 treatment compares the central banks of Britain and the United States.

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