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La Banque d’Angleterre, valet de deux maîtres : les actionnaires et l’État (1694-1720)
Murphy, Anne (Editions Albin Michel, 2010)The Bank of England was not created to function as a central bank. Indeed, when it was founded in 1694, the Bank was not even intended to be a permanent institution. It was merely one of a number of expedients designed to ... -
Clock-watching : work and working time at the late-eighteenth-century Bank of England
Murphy, Anne (2017-08-01) -
"Come vanno i titoli"? Informazione e investimenti a Londra alla fine del XVII secolo
Murphy, Anne (2007)This article analyses the information system that supported London's first financial market. It reveals a significant and advanced system of information exchange, but also shows that early modern investors still had to ... -
Dealing with the threat of reform : the Bank of England in the 1780s
Murphy, Anne (Boydell & Brewer, 2015-11) -
Dealing with uncertainty : managing personal investment in the early English national debt
Murphy, Anne (2006)During the late seventeenth century there was a ‘Financial Revolution’ in England. Prompted by the exigencies of the Nine Years War (1689–97), the state marked the beginnings of a permanently funded National Debt by ... -
Demanding ‘credible commitment’ : public reactions to the failures of the early financial revolution
Murphy, Anne (2013-02)North and Weingast’s notion of ‘credible commitment’ arguably offers a reasonable understanding of the factors that allowed the development of a trusting relationship between the state and their potential creditors over ... -
Financial Markets : The Limits of Economic Regulation in Early Modern England
Murphy, Anne (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2014) -
The financial revolution and its consequences
Murphy, Anne (Cambridge University Press, 2014-10) -
The Financial Revolution in England
Murphy, Anne (Elsevier, 2012) -
Inspection and efficiency at the eighteenth-century Bank of England
Murphy, Anne (2015)This article explores the impact of the reforming zeal that emerged during the 1780s on British public finances, in particular, the Bank of England. Although a private company and, therefore, exempt from examination by a ... -
Learning the business of banking : the management of the Bank of England's first tellers
Murphy, Anne (2010)This article focuses on what appears from the surviving records to have been the most troublesome of the new Bank of England's functions: the telling of money. The Bank's tellers had a complex job and the mistakes they ... -
Lotteries in the 1690s : investment or gamble?
Murphy, Anne (2005)Between 1693 and 1699 lotteries captivated all section of English society. Dozens of schemes appeared throughout the country offering prizes in the form of consumer goods, property, land, shares and, of course, cash. It ... -
Networks of information
Murphy, Anne (Cambridge University Press, 2009)The previous chapter emphasised that while printed information might have been abundant, its utility for the active investor was questionable. The slow speed at which newspapers were printed and circulated meant that many ... -
The origins of the English financial markets : investment and speculation before the south sea bubble
Murphy, Anne (Cambridge University Press, 2009)In English financial history, the late 1600s was a critical period. Many joint-stock companies appeared creating opportunity for investment in projects that ranged from paper manufacturing to the search for sunken treasure. ... -
Review of periodical literature published in 2011
Faith, Rosamond; Davis, James; Paul, Helen; Murphy, Anne; Crook, Tom; Velkar, Aashish; Godden, Chris (2013-02) -
Time and work at the Bank of England.
Murphy, Anne (Centre for Economic Policy Research, 2011-05-22)Working 9 to 5, Monday to Friday is the typical grind in Anglo-Saxon economies. In some professions, longer hours and low pay for junior workers is justified by the end reward of much better pay and a better work-life ... -
Trading options before Black-Scholes : a study of the market in late seventeenth-century London
Murphy, Anne (2009)This article uses data from the ledgers of the financial broker Charles Blunt to explore the market in equity options that emerged in London during the stock market boom of the early 1690s. Blunt's ledgers provide a unique ... -
‘Writes a fair hand and appears to be well qualified’ : the recruitment of Bank of England clerks, 1800-1815
Murphy, Anne (2015-09-06)The financial strains of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars had a significant impact on the Bank of England. In its position as banker to the state and manager of the state’s debt, it experienced a significant increase ...