Banking in Crisis: The Rise And Fall Of British Banking Stability, 1800 To The Present (Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series) - Softcover

Turner, John D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1107609860 ISBN 13: 9781107609860

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2014

Synopsis

A full account of the rise and fall of British banking stability which sheds new light on why banking systems crash.

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About the Author

John D. Turner has been a Professor of Finance and Financial History at Queen's University Belfast since 2005. At the time of his appointment to his chair, he was one of the youngest full professors in Queen's University. He is the founder and director of the Queen's University Centre for Economic History. John Turner teaches money, banking and finance to undergraduate and postgraduate students. He is also an active blogger - he writes a blog (www.financelongrun.co.uk), aimed at his students and interested others, which centres on the past, present and future of finance. His research, which has been published in all the leading economic and business history journals, as well as economics journals, is focused on the long-run evolution and development of banking, banking crises, bubbles, corporate law, and financial markets. His research has been funded by the British Academy, Economic and Social Research Council, and the Leverhulme Trust. He has held several distinguished visiting positions during his career - he has been a Houblon–Norman Fellow at the Bank of England and an Alfred D. Chandler Fellow at Harvard Business School.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1107609860
• ISBN 13: 9781107609860
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 266