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British monetary orthodoxy in the 1870s : a victory of the Currency Principle

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Date
2008
Dewey
Théorie économique
Sujet
Currency School; Banking School; Money and credit; Bagehot; Lender of last resort; Price-specie-flow mechanism; Gold points mechanism
JEL code
B12; N13
Journal issue
European Journal of the History of Economic Thought
Volume
15
Number
2
Publication date
06-2008
Article pages
181-209
Publisher
Routledge Taylor and Francis Group
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09672560802037557
URI
https://basepub.dauphine.fr/handle/123456789/1787
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de Boyer des Roches, Jérôme
Diatkine, Sylvie
Type
Article accepté pour publication ou publié
Abstract (EN)
Approval of the quantity theory, of the Humean price-specie-flow mechanism (PSFM) and of lender of last resort analysis are characteristics of British monetary orthodoxy in the 1870s. But this does not mean that this orthodoxy achieved a synthesis between the Banking School and the Currency School. On the contrary, we show that it marks the victory of the Currency Principle that, in fact, did evolve after 1847, but did not rejoin Banking School ideas. The PSFM, which is essential to the Currency Principle, cannot be confused with the gold points mechanism described by Thornton and Tooke. The lender of last resort and money market theories developed by Bagehot are compatible with the dichotomy between currency and credit, a characteristic of the Currency Principle, and contrary to the thought of Thornton's and Tooke.

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