Includes bibliographical references and index.

Writing history -- The commissioned historians of the Bank of England / Charles Goodhart -- The new monetary and financial history / Barry Eichengreen -- Crisis management -- English financial markets in the 1830s : information networks, risk assessment and banking crisis / Michael Collins and Mae Baker -- Implementing Bagehot's rule in a world of derivatives : the Banque de France as a lender of last resort in the nineteenth century / Eugene White -- Banking crises and the rules of the game / Charles Calomiris -- Money and interest rates -- Money and interest rates in the United States during the Great Depression / Peter Basile, John Landon-Lane, and Hugh Rockoff -- Two and a half centuries of British interest rates, monetary regimes, and inflation / Terence Mills and Geoffrey Wood -- Monetary aggregates restored? : Capie and Webber revisited / Alec Chrystal and Paul Mizen -- Implications of economic integration -- Does the euro need a fiscal union? : some lessons from history / Michael Bordo, Lars Jonung, and Agnieszka Markiewcz -- Making a central bank without a state / Harold James -- Openness, protectionism, and Britain's productivity performance over the long-run / Stephen Broadberry and Nicholas Crafts -- The price-cost mark-up in the UK : a long-run perspective / Nichoals Crafts and Terence Mills.