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Author Chapman, Richard A

Title Decision Making (Routledge Revivals) : a Case Study of the Decision to Raise the Bank Rate in September 1957
Published London : Taylor and Francis, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (127 pages)
Series Routledge Revivals
Routledge revivals.
Contents Front Cover; Decision Making; Copyright Page; General editor's introduction; Contents; 1. Introduction; 2. Background to the decision and the Tribunal; The Bank Rate Tribunal; The legal responsibility; The economic situation; 3. Leading up to the decision; September 1st to September 15th; 4. How the decision was made; Monday, September 16th; Tuesday, September 17th; Wednesday, September 18th; Thursday, September 19th; 5. The Bank of England and the Treasury; Development of the relationship; Consequences for decision-making; The principle of unanimity; 6. Some factors in decision making
The decision makersHolidays; Communications and consensus; An administrative process; Bibliography and guide to further reading
Notes Originally published in 1968, Richard Chapman's pioneering work illuminates the process of decision making by analysis of a particular example: the decision to raise the Bank Rate in September, 1957. The legal responsibility for a decision may be easy to pinpoint; in this case the Court of Directors of the Bank of England bear this but six weeks of negotiation separate their formal statement from the Chancellor of the Exchequer's advice to the Treasury to consider effecting 'a measure of deflation in the economy'. These six weeks of consultation between the Bank and the Treasury proceeding in
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Subject Bank of England.
Great Britain. Treasury.
SUBJECT Bank of England fast
Great Britain. Treasury fast
Subject Interest rates -- Great Britain
Decision making -- Case studies
Decision making
Interest rates
Great Britain
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781136451669
1136451668