Controlling Credit by Eric Monnet - 9781108415019

Controlling CreditCentral Banking and the Planned Economy in Postwar France, 19481973\nAuthor(s): Eric Monnet\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108415019, 978-1108415019\nSynopsis\nIt is common wisdom that central banks in the postwar [tel]s) period were passive bureaucracies constrained by fixed-exchange rates and inflationist fiscal policies. This view is mostly retrospective and informed by US and UK experiences. This book tells a different story. Eric Monnet shows that the Banque de France was at the heart of the postwar financial system and economic planning, and that it contributed to economic growth by both stabilizing inflation and fostering direct lending to priority economic activities. Credit was institutionalized as a social and economic objective. Monetary policy and credit controls were conflated. He then broadens his analysis to other European countries and sheds light on the evol.