<P>Lombard Street : A Description of the Money Market (Wiley Investment Classics)</P>
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<P>CHAPTER I.Introductory.<br>CHAPTER II.A General View of Lombard Street.<br>CHAPTER III.How Lombard Street Came to Exist, and Why It Assumed Its Present Form.<br>CHAPTER IV.The Position of the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Money Market.<br>CHAPTER V.The Mode in Which the Value of Money Is Settled in Lombard Street.<br>CHAPTER VI.Why Lombard Street Is Often Very Dull, and Sometimes Extremely Excited.<br>CHAPTER VII.A More Exact Account of the Mode in Which the Bank of England Has Discharged Its Duty of Retaining a Good Bank Reserve, and of Administering It Effectually.<br>CHAPTER VIII. The Government of the Bank of England.<br>CHAPTER IX.The Joint Stock Banks<br>CHAPTER X.The Private Banks.<br>CHAPTER XI.The Bill-Brokers.<br>CHAPTER XII.The Principles Which Should Regulate the Amount of the Banking Reserve to Be Kept by the Bank of England<br>CHAPTER XIII.Conclusion.</P>
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<P><br>Can a book about finance written in 1873 be helpful in a world with complex financial markets and plenty of information about how they work? The answer is yes. It is not that "Lombard Street" is a classic that one finds quoted many a time; the reader's interest should transcend historical inquiry or curiosity; "Lombard Street" should be read and revered by anyone interested in the underlying, abiding features of financial markets.</P>
<P>What follows from these premises is a careful examination of how the money market came about, what its uses are, how its operations are connected to trade and country's overall welfare, and, most importantly, how central banks can deal with financial crises. Written elegantly, "Lombard Street" is, at the same time, an introductory overview of the market and a trenchant analysis of its most salient features.</P>
<P>But what makes "Lombard Street" timeless is that it deals with finance in its human form. Bagehot talks about power, prestige and perception as much as he does about interest, discount, and credit. Trust is based on institutions and people: the human features of finance-trust, anxiety, mania, optimism-are timeless and apply to the financial markets of the nineteenth, twentieth, or twenty-first century. That is why "Lombard Street" is an ever useful introduction and guide.</P>
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