T. W. Swan: “Australian War Finance and Banking Policy”

Peter L. Swan ()
Additional contact information
Peter L. Swan: UNSW (Sydney)

Chapter Chapter 4 in Trevor Winchester Swan, Volume I, 2022, pp 129-148 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Rarely does an economist write about funding a war, in this case during the first year of the Second World War, 1939-40. Trevor Swan begins with his attempt to set out what is recorded or can be surmised of the course of financial and monetary policy during 1939-40. He then follows this up with an analysis of banking policy over the same period and the Treasurer’s proposals for the following year. He addresses questions such as: Is it desired to “pay for the war” out of real consumption now, or to make posterity (including those of us who survive) pay in the form of a smaller volume of capital equipment.

Date: 2022
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:pshchp:978-3-031-13737-2_4

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.palgrave.com/9783031137372

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-13737-2_4

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Palgrave Studies in the History of Economic Thought from Palgrave Macmillan
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().