Lombard Street : a description of the money market / Walter Bagehot ; [with a foreword by Peter L. Bernstein]
Imprint
New York : Wiley, c1999
Descript
xiv, 359 p. ; 22 cm
CONTENT
General view of Lombard Street -- How Lombard Street came to exist, and why it assumed its present form -- Position of the chancellor of the exchequer in the money market -- Mode in which the value of money is settled in Lombard Street -- Why Lombard Street is often very dull, and sometimes extremely excited -- Government of the bank of England -- Joint stock banks -- Private banks