Virtuous Bankers : : A Day in the Life of the Eighteenth-Century Bank of England / / Anne Murphy.
An intimate account of the eighteenth-century Bank of England that shows how a private institution became “a great engine of state”The eighteenth-century Bank of England was an institution that operated for the benefit of its shareholders—and yet came to be considered, as Adam Smith described it, “a...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Business and Economics 2023 English |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 12 b/w illus. 4 tables. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Opening the Gates
- Chapter 2 Polite Banking
- Chapter 3 Making the Market
- Chapter 4 Management and Neglect
- Chapter 5 Accounting for Public Confidence
- Chapter 6 Guarding the Guardian of Public Credit
- Conclusion
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index
- A note on the type