Controlling Credit: Central Banking and the Planned Economy in Postwar France, 1948–1973 - Couverture souple

Monnet, Eric

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1108400086 ISBN 13 : 9781108400084

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2019

Synopsis

It is common wisdom that central banks in the postwar (1945–1970s) period were passive bureaucracies constrained by fixed-exchange rates and inflationist fiscal policies. This view is mostly retrospective and informed by US and UK experiences. This book tells a different story. Eric Monnet shows that the Banque de France was at the heart of the postwar financial system and economic planning, and that it contributed to economic growth by both stabilizing inflation and fostering direct lending to priority economic activities. Credit was institutionalized as a social and economic objective. Monetary policy and credit controls were conflated. He then broadens his analysis to other European countries and sheds light on the evolution of central banks and credit policy before the Monetary Union. This new understanding has important ramifications for today, since many emerging markets have central bank policies that are similar to Western Europe's in the decades of high growth.

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À propos de l'auteur

Eric Monnet is a senior economist at the Bank of France, a Professor in Economic History at the Paris School of Economics, and a research affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1108400086
• ISBN 13: 9781108400084
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 354
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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