TY  - BOOK
AU  - Khan,Salimullah
AU  - Foley,Duncan
TI  - Theories of Central Banking in England, 1793-1877
U1  - 332 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - USA
PB  - University Microfilms International (UMI)
KW  - Banking
KW  - Finance
KW  - BBA
KW  - Business Administration
N1  - Dissertation Committee: Dr. Duncan Foley, Dr. William Milberg, Dr. Perry Mehrling. PhD Dissertation, New School University, 2000; Includes bibliographical refences; BBA
N2  - This dissertation re-examines central banking ideas in England in the formative period of central banking (1793-1877). It builds on the postulate that money, like language and other symbolic orders, is a structure and central banking, a practice in the symbolic, is a function consisting in stabilizing the credit system. The credit system follows two operative laws, namely metaphor or substitution and metonymy or displacement. Monetary ideas, historically, are found to be either imaginary or symbolic
ER  -