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Ricardo's monetary policy and the currency principle

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  • Sylvie DIATKINE

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We show that David Ricardo's proposals from 1816 to 1823 for reforming the British monetary and banking system aim at defining a specific monetary policy which in rather important points is different from the one that will be implemented in 1844, the latter following the Currency School recommendations. According to Ricardo, currency only composed of banknotes convertible into bullion, should be issued by the State, that is to say a "national public bank", independent from the government but which neither lends nor behaves as a central bank. It is only responsible for the stability of the value of paper money through its intervening on the gold market. It is subject to price rules and not quantity rules or reserve requirements and this is why it can pursue an active policy which permits a flexible supply of money through an open market policy.

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  • Sylvie DIATKINE, 2008. "Ricardo's monetary policy and the currency principle," Cahiers d’économie politique / Papers in Political Economy, L'Harmattan, issue 55, pages 35-48, July - De.
    • Handle: RePEc:cpo:journl:y:2008:i:55:p:35-48
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    • B12 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought through 1925 - - - Classical (includes Adam Smith)
    • E42 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Monetary Sytsems; Standards; Regimes; Government and the Monetary System
    • E52 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Monetary Policy
    • E58 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Central Banks and Their Policies

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