TY - BOOK ID - 78672967 TI - The Bank of England PY - 2010 SN - 9781139077576 1139077570 9780521192828 052119282X 9780511761478 0511761473 9781107621695 1107621690 1107204429 1139063073 1283112337 9786613112330 1139075314 1139079867 1139082132 1139069543 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Banks and banking, Central KW - Banker's banks KW - Banks, Central KW - Central banking KW - Central banks KW - Banks and banking KW - History KW - Bank of England KW - Governor and Company of the Bank of England KW - Eiran Ginkō KW - Old Lady of Threadneedle Street KW - Old Lady in Threadneedle Street KW - Great Britain. KW - History. KW - E-books KW - Business, Economy and Management KW - Economics KW - GB / United Kingdom - Verenigd Koninkrijk - Royaume Uni KW - 331.162.21 KW - 331.157 KW - -336.71 <09> KW - 332.110941 KW - 336.71 <09> Bankwezen--Geschiedenis van ... KW - Bankwezen--Geschiedenis van ... KW - Geschiedenis van de centrale banken KW - Geldwezen sedert 1945 KW - Bankwezen--Geschiedenis van KW - 336.7 <09> KW - 336.71 <41> KW - 336.71 <41> Bankwezen--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland KW - Bankwezen--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland KW - 336.7 <09> Geschiedenis van het bankwezen KW - Geschiedenis van het bankwezen KW - -History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78672967 AB - "This history of the Bank of England takes its story from the 1950s to the end of the 1970s. This period probably saw the peak of the Bank's influence and prestige, as it dominated the financial landscape. One of the Bank's central functions was to manage the exchange rate. It was also responsible for administering all the controls that made up monetary policy. In the first part of the period, the Bank did all this with a remarkable degree of freedom. But economic policy was a failure, and sluggish output, banking instability, and rampant inflation characterized the 1970s. The pegged exchange rate was discontinued, and the Bank's freedom of movement was severely constrained, as new approaches to policy were devised and implemented. The Bank lost much of its freedom of movement but also took on more formal supervision"-- ER -