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Richard Sidney Sayers (1908–1989)
Richard Sayers’s greatest strength was as an economic historian of institutional changes within the British financial system, especially relating to the Bank of England, for which he became the second official historian covering the years 1891-1944; but also writing the histories of Lloyds and Gilletts, and a wider study entitled Financial Policy, 1939-45. Nevertheless, he is best known for two other contributions. First, his textbook, Modern Banking, remained required reading on this subject for all British undergraduates from 1937 until the early 1970s; second, he played the major role in the domestic monetary analysis of the Radcliffe Report (1959). This latter role was often not well received, and his historical and institutional approach to the subject began to be treated as unfashionable and outdated, so that Sayers, always a lone introvert, had a somewhat sad end to his lif
Richard Sidney Sayers (1908–1989)
Richard Sayers’s greatest strength was as an economic historian of institutional changes within the British financial system, especially relating to the Bank of England, for which he became the second official historian covering the years 1891-1944; but also writing the histories of Lloyds and Gilletts, and a wider study entitled Financial Policy, 1939-45. Nevertheless, he is best known for two other contributions. First, his textbook, Modern Banking, remained required reading on this subject for all British undergraduates from 1937 until the early 1970s; second, he played the major role in the domestic monetary analysis of the Radcliffe Report (1959). This latter role was often not well received, and his historical and institutional approach to the subject began to be treated as unfashionable and outdated, so that Sayers, always a lone introvert, had a somewhat sad end to his lif
Hamlet Without the Prince of Denmark: Relationship Banking and Conditionality Lending in the London Market for Foreign Government Debt, 1815-1913
The International Monetary System, 1945–1976: An Insider's View. By Robert Solomon. New York: Harper and Row, 1977. Pp. xiii, 381. $17.50.
China's Participation in the IMF, the World Bank and GATT: Towards a Global Economic Order. By Harold K. Jacobson and Michel Oksenberg. [Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, and Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1990. 199 pp. ÂŁ25.00.]
Aid China 1937–1949: A Memoir of a Forgotten Campaign. By Arthur Clegg. [Beijing, China: New World Press, 1989. 205 pp.]
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