Issues and Agents in International Political Economy or A History of Central Banking in Great Britain and the United States

Issues and Agents in International Political Economy: An International Organization Reader

Author: Benjamin J Cohen

This is the second of two anthologies on international political economy drawn from articles published in the journal International Organization. The book is organized into four sections: Trade, Multinational Firms and Globalization, Money and Finance, and Emerging Issues.

Table of Contents:

Contributors
Abstracts
Preface
Benjamin J. Cohen and Charles Lipson
I. Trade
Cooperation in the Liberalization of International Trade: After
Hegemony, What? (1987)
Beth V. Yarbrough and Robert M. Yarbrough
Policy Rivalry Among Industrial States: What Can We Learn from
Models of Strategic Trade Policy? (1989)
Klaus Stegemann
International Law and Domestic Institutions: Reconciling North
American "Unfair" Trade Laws (1996)
Judith Goldstein
II. Multinational Firms and Globalization
testing the Bargaining Hypothesis in the Manufacturing Sector in
Developing Countries (1987)
Stephen J. Kobrin
Between Free Trade and Protectionism: Strategic Trade Policy and a
Theory of Corporate Trade Demands (1989)
Helen V. Milner and David B. Yoffie
National Structures and Multinational Corporate Behavior: Enduring
Differences in the Age of Globalization (1997)
Louis W. Pauly and Simon Reich
III. Money and Finance
Invested Interests: The Politics of National Economic Policies in
a World of Global Finance (1991)
Jeffry A. Frieden
International Economic Structures, Government Interests, and
International Coordination of Macroeconomic Adjustment Policies (1991)
Michael C. Webb
The Political Economy of Financial Internationalization in the
Developing World (1996)
Stephen Haggard and Sylvia Maxfield
IV. Emerging Issues
Trade Gaps, Analytical Gaps: Regime Analysis and International
Commodity Trade Regulation (1987)
Mark W. Zacher
The Politics of International Regime Formation: Managing Natural
Resources and the Environment(1989)
Oran R. Young
What Happened to Fortress Europe?: External Trade Policy
Liberalization in the European Union (1989)
Brain T. Hanson

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A History of Central Banking in Great Britain and the United States (Studies in Macroeconomic History Series)

Author: John H Wood

Central banks in Great Britain and the United States arose early in the financial revolution. The Bank of England was created in 1694 while the first Banks of the United States appeared in 1791-1811 and 1816-36, and were followed by the Idependent Treasury, 1846-1914. These institutions, together with the Suffolk Bank and the New York Clearing House, exercised important central banking function before the creation of the Federal Reserve System in
1913. Significant monetary changes in the lives of these British and American institutions are examined within a framework that deals with the knowledge and behavior of central bankers and their interactions with economists and politicians. Central Bankers' behavior has shown considerable continuity in the influence of incentives and their interest in the stability of the financial markets. For example, the Federal Reserve's behavior during the Great Depression, the low inflation of the 1990s, and its resurgence the next decade follow from its structure and from government pressures rather than accidents of personnel.