Calming the Storms

Analyses the reaction of the Victorian Treasury to fiscal and financial crises in the nineteenth century

Macroeconomically analyses the causes of Victorian financial crises in Britain and Ireland

Explores the relationship between financial crises and exchange-rate policy, a subject where there has been a revival of interest amongst academics in recent years

Considers Great Britain and Ireland together as part of a single monetary union

Provides a new explanation for the rise and fall of British financial stability over the past two centuries Explores the relationship between monetary policy and financial crises in Britain over the past two centuries Examines the role of the Carry Trade in British financial history

Autorentext

Charles Read is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in History and an Affiliated Lecturer in Economics and History at the University of Cambridge. He is also a Fellow, Tutor, College Lecturer and Director of Studies at Corpus Christi College and a Research Associate at the Centre for Financial History at Darwin College. His previous research has won the Thirsk-Feinstein PhD Dissertation Prize, the T.S. Ashton Prize, and the New Researcher Prize of the Economic History Society and a prize from the International Economic History Association for the best doctoral dissertation completed in 2015, 2016 or 2017. He has also worked as a writer and editor at The Economist and as a research associate at an investment bank in London.

Inhalt

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Peel's economic-policy regime change in Britain during the early nineteenth century.- Chapter 3. The ideas and policies of the Banking School.- Chapter 4. The crises of 1825 and 1837.- Chapter 5. The 1847 Crises.- Chapter 6. The 1857-58 crisis, etc.

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