New Perspectives on the Financial System

PREFACE -- LIST OF AUTHORS -- PART I : QUESTIONS OF POLICY AND THEORY - The future of finance / Michael Meacher -- Alternative perspectives on the financial system / Laurence Harris - PART II : FINANCE AND THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM - Introduction / Laurence Harris -- Money makes the world go round / Trevor Evans -- The internationalisaton of bank capital / Jerry Coakkley -- Industry : the city and the foreign exchanges : theory and evidence / Jerry Coakley, Laurence Harris - PART III : THE CITY AND INDUSTRY - Introduction / Laurence Harris -- Evaluating the role of the financial system / Jerry Coakley, Laurence Harris -- The managment of shareholding in large maufacturing companies / Richard Minns -- Bank lending and the control of industry : an empirical study / Jerry Coakley -- Modelling the finance of investment / Martin Croasdale, Laurence Harris - PART IV : TECHNOLOGY AND BANKING - Introduction / Laurence Harris -- Banking on he new technologie : co-operation, competition and the clearers / Stephen Smith, David Wield - PART V : THE LOCAL STATE, PENSION FUNDS, AND INDUSTRY - Introduction / Laurence Harris -- Pension funds and local authority investment / Robin Murray -- Pension Funds : an alternative view / Richard Minns - PARTE VI : STATE REGUALTION OF FINANCE : THREE CASE STUDIES - Introdution / Laurence Harris -- Interest rate policy and credit rationing in Japan : the evidence / Sonja Ruehl -- Financial reform and economic growth : a new interpretation of south Korea's experiencie / Laurence Harris -- The limits of bank nationalisation in France / Alan Lipietz.