Crisis, Crash, Rescue

  • Michael Moran
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Part of the Studies in Policy-Making book series

Abstract

Social calamities often have trivial immediate causes: an archduke assassinated, a message misunderstood or a chance indiscretion provoked. The reason is not difficult to fathom: peace and stability in social life rest on trust; where trust is weak a small mishap can destroy it. Bagehot put the point exactly in connection with banking: ‘The peculiar essence of our banking system is an unprecedented trust between man and man; and when that trust is much weakened by hidden causes, a small accident may greatly hurt it.’1

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Banking System Money Market Bank Lending Property Market Banking Failure 
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Notes and References

  1. 1.
    Walter Bagehot, Lombard Street: a description of the money market, 14th edition (London: John Murray, 1915) pp. 151–2.Google Scholar
  2. 2.
    Department of Trade, London and County Securities Group, Inspectors’ Report (London: HMSO 1976) pp. 12–13.Google Scholar
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    Oliver Marriott, The Property Boom (London- Hamish Hamilton, 1967) p.11.Google Scholar
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    Committee on Invisible Exports, Economists Advisory Group, quoted in Michael Clarke, Fallen Idols: Elites and the Search for the Acceptable Face of Capitalism (London: Junction Books, 1981) p. 89.Google Scholar
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    David H. McKay and Andrew W. Cox, The Politics of Urban Change (London: Croom Helm, 1979) p. 143 has figures.Google Scholar
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    For example in Derek F. Channon, British Banking Strategy and the International Challenge (London: Macmillan, 1977) p. 96.Google Scholar
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    Richard Lambert, ‘Banks in Turmoil’, The Sunday Times, 8 September 1974.Google Scholar
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    Harold L. Wilensky, Organisational Intelligence (New York: Basic Books, 1967) pp. 88–93.Google Scholar
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    Tom Hadden, Company Law and Capitalism (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1972) pp. 64–72.Google Scholar
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    Quoted in Department of Trade Inspectors’ Report, Peachey Property Corporation Limited (London: HMSO, 1979) pp. 24–5.Google Scholar
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    Roberta Wohlstetter, Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision (Stanford University Press, 1962).Google Scholar
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    Cited in Charles Raw, Slater Walker: an investigation of a financial phenomenon (London: Andre Deutsch, 1977) p. 347.Google Scholar
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    Anne Segall, ‘Euromarket questions affect Bank’s thinking at home’, Investors Chronicle, 16 August 1974.Google Scholar

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© Michael Moran 1984

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