Government–city of London relations under the gold standard 1925–1931

The British Government and the City of London in the Twentieth Century

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 215-235

  Boyce, Robert ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

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