Banking and Public Finance in Wartime England, 1694–96
by
Richard A. Kleer
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
The Nine Years’ War with France was a period of great institutional innovation in public finance and of severe monetary turmoil for England. It saw the creation of the Bank of England; a sudden sharp fall in the external value of the pound; a massive undertaking to melt down and recoin most of the...