Böcker av Forrest Capie

Based on a research programme on the monetary history of the United Kingdom, this volume contains monetary series ranging from detailed balance sheet material to monetary aggregates. It aims to serve as a reference to economic historians, applied economists, to the students of money and banking and also to monetary economists of other countries.

Free capital movements played an important part in the economic integration and globalisation of the nineteenth century. This work analyses historical experience with capital controls, in Britain and elsewhere, and reviews the theory. It concludes that such controls are damaging and that there is no case for reviving them.

This volume is the second collection of the series of lectures, held annually at City University, London, in honour of Henry Thornton, the renowned 19th Century monetary economist.