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Author : Frank Prochaska
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300195545
The spirited and measured memoir of Walter Bagehot, had he left one
Author : James Grant
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393609202
The definitive biography of one of the most brilliant and influential financial minds—banker, essayist, and editor of the Economist. During the upheavals of 2007–09, the chairman of the Federal Reserve had the name of a Victorian icon on the tip of his tongue: Walter Bagehot. Banker, man of letters, inventor of the Treasury bill, and author of Lombard Street, the still-canonical guide to stopping a run on the banks, Bagehot prescribed the doctrines that—decades later—inspired the radical responses to the world’s worst financial crises. Born in the small market town of Langport, just after the Panic of 1825 swept across England, Bagehot followed in his father’s footsteps and took a position at the local family bank—but his influence on financial matters would soon spread far beyond the county of Somerset. Persuasive and precocious, he came to hold sway in political circles, making high-profile friends, including William Gladstone—and enemies, such as Lord Overstone and Benjamin Disraeli. As a prolific essayist on wide-ranging topics, Bagehot won the admiration of Matthew Arnold and Woodrow Wilson, and delighted in paradox. He was also a misogynist, and while he opposed slavery, he misjudged Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War. As editor of the Economist, he offered astute commentary on the financial issues of his day, and his name lives on in an eponymous weekly column. He has been called "the Greatest Victorian." In James Grant’s colorful and groundbreaking biography, Bagehot appears as both an ornament to his own age and a muse to our own. Drawing on a wealth of historical documents, correspondence, and publications, Grant paints a vivid portrait of the banker and his world.
Author : Walter Bagehot
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : History
ISBN : NYPL:33433081652806
There is a great difficulty in the way of a writer who attempts to sketch a living Constitution-a Constitution that is in actual work and power. The difficulty is that the object is in constant change. An historical writer does not feel this difficulty: he deals only with the past; he can say definitely, the Constitution worked in such and such a manner in the year at which he begins, and in a manner in such and such respects different in the year at which he ends; he begins with a definite point of time and ends with one also. But a contemporary writer who tries to paint what is before him is puzzled and a perplexed: what he sees is changing daily. He must paint it as it stood at some one time, or else he will be putting side by side in his representations things which never were contemporaneous in reality.
Author : Walter Bagehot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Constitutional history
ISBN : ONB:+Z252696406
A classic study of the British constitution, paying special attention to how Parliament and the monarchy work. The author frequently draws comparisons with the American Constitution, being generally critical of the American system of government.
Author : Walter Bagehot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : English literature
ISBN : HARVARD:HWE57R
Author : Walter Bagehot
Publisher : New York ; London : G.P. Putnam's Sons
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Capital
ISBN : NYPL:33433009007745
Author : Walter Bagehot
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 172290092X
Physics and Politics, or, Thoughts on the application of the principles of "natural selection" and "inheritance" to political society by Walter Bagehot One peculiarity of this age is the sudden acquisition of much physical knowledge. There is scarcely a department of science or art which is the same, or at all the same, as it was fifty years ago. A new world of inventions-of railways and of telegraphs-has grown up around us which we cannot help seeing; a new world of ideas is in the air and affects us, though we do not see it. A full estimate of these effects would require a great book, and I am sure I could not write it; but I think I may usefully, in a few papers, show how, upon one or two great points, the new ideas are modifying two old sciences-politics and political economy. Even upon these points my ideas must be incomplete, for the subject is novel; but, at any rate, I may suggest some conclusions, and so show what is requisite even if I do not supply it. If we wanted to describe one of the most marked results, perhaps the most marked result, of late thought, we should say that by it everything is made 'an antiquity.' When, in former times; our ancestors thought of an antiquarian, they described him as occupied with coins, and medals, and Druids' stones; these were then the characteristic records of the decipherable past, and it was with these that decipherers busied themselves. But now there are other relics; indeed, all matter is become such. Science tries to find in each bit of earth the record of the causes which made it precisely what it is; those forces have left their trace, she knows, as much as the tact and hand of the artist left their mark on a classical gem. It would be tedious (and it is not in my way) to reckon up the ingenious questionings by which geology has made part of the earth, at least, tell part of its tale; and the answers would have been meaningless if physiology and conchology and a hundred similar sciences had not brought their aid. Such subsidiary sciences are to the decipherer of the present day what old languages were to the antiquary of other days; they construe for him the words which he discovers, they give a richness and a truth-like complexity to the picture which he paints, even in cases where the particular detail they tell is not much. But what here concerns me is that man himself has, to the eye of science, become 'an antiquity.' She tries to read, is beginning to read, knows she ought to read, in the frame of each man the result of a whole history of all his life, of what he is and what makes him so, -of all his fore-fathers, of what they were and of what made them so. Each nerve has a sort of memory of its past life, is trained or not trained, dulled or quickened, as the case may be; each feature is shaped and characterised, or left loose and meaningless, as may happen; each hand is marked with its trade and life, subdued to what it works in We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
Author : Walter Bagehot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015081264924
Author : Walter Bagehot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:174010436
Author : Walter Bagehot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : English literature
ISBN : HARVARD:HB1ZMW
Author : Walter Bagehot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1906
Category : Banks and banking
ISBN : HARVARD:LI46SW
Author : Walter Bagehot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : English literature
ISBN : UCAL:B3024251
Author : Walter Bagehot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : English literature
ISBN : UCAL:$B810947
Author : Walter Bagehot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : English literature
ISBN : UOM:39015066184857
Author : Perry Mehrling
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781400836260
How the U.S. Federal Reserve began actively intervening in markets Walter Bagehot's Lombard Street, published in 1873 in the wake of a devastating London bank collapse, explained in clear and straightforward terms why central banks must serve as the lender of last resort to ensure liquidity in a faltering credit system. Bagehot's book set down the principles that helped define the role of modern central banks, particularly in times of crisis—but the recent global financial meltdown has posed unforeseen challenges. The New Lombard Street lays out the innovative principles needed to address the instability of today's markets and to rebuild our financial system. Revealing how we arrived at the current crisis, Perry Mehrling traces the evolution of ideas and institutions in the American banking system since the establishment of the Federal Reserve in 1913. He explains how the Fed took classic central banking wisdom from Britain and Europe and adapted it to America's unique and considerably more volatile financial conditions. Mehrling demonstrates how the Fed increasingly found itself serving as the dealer of last resort to ensure the liquidity of securities markets—most dramatically amid the recent financial crisis. Now, as fallout from the crisis forces the Fed to adapt in unprecedented ways, new principles are needed to guide it. In The New Lombard Street, Mehrling persuasively argues for a return to the classic central bankers' "money view," which looks to the money market to assess risk and restore faith in our financial system.
