Depoliticising Monetary Policy: The Minimum Lending Rate Experiment in Britain in the 1970s

New Political Economy

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 463-480

  Burnham, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

depoliticisation; minimum lending rate; monetary policy; states and markets

Indexed keywords

BANKING; FINANCIAL MARKET; FINANCIAL POLICY; LENDING BEHAVIOR; MONETARY POLICY;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84859030546     PISSN: 13563467     EISSN: 14699923     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13563467.2011.532202     Document Type: Article

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