Details

Subject(s)

• Foreign exchange market—England—London [Browse]
• Bank of England [Browse]

Series

Routledge explorations in economic history. [More in this series]

Summary note

Foreign Exchange is big business in the City of London. At the last official count, turnover on the London foreign exchange market averaged a staggering 504 billion a day. No other financial centre in the world even comes close to matching this total. Thirty one per cent of global foreign exchange activity takes place in the United Kingdom, compared with only sixteen per cent in the United States and nine per cent in Japan.However, this has not always been so. A hundred years ago, the London foreign exchange market played second fiddle to more important centres in New York, Paris an

Notes

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language note

English

Contents

Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 The Somnolent Years 1900-14; 2 Innocence Lost 1914-18; 3 Tom Tiddler's Ground 1918-31; 4 Off Gold and into the Bank 1931-39; 5 War and peace 1939-51; 6 Regaining lost ground 1951-72; 7 Innovation and deregulation 1972-86; 8 On top of the world 1986-2003; Notes; Bibliography; Index

ISBN

• 1-134-27394-0
• 1-134-27395-9
• 1-280-22557-2
• 9786610225576
• 0-203-32269-X

OCLC

275303920

Doi

• 10.4324/9780203322697

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