Anne L Murphy
Biographic Data
| ID | 1048002 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anne L Murphy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anne L |
| FAMILY NAME | Murphy |
| SIGNATURE | MURPHY A L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hertfordshire |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0138-3480 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Performing Public Credit at the Eighteenth-Century Bank of England
Much is known about the negotiation of personal credit relationships during the eighteenth century. It has been noted how direct contact and observation allowed individuals to assess the creditworthiness of those with whom they had financial connections and to whom they might lend money. Much less is known about one of the most important credit relationships of the long eighteenth century: that between the state and its creditors. This article sh…
Respectable Banking
In this book, Anthony Hotson considers the reasons why London’s credit and money markets enjoyed a so-called ‘century of stability from the 1870s to 1971’ (p. 44) and why stability has been so elusive over the past fifty years. The focus is on London as a financial centre, but the argument relates to British and indeed, at times, global history. This is not a new subject, of course, but Hotson, a former financier who, in a long career, also worke…
You do manage it so well that I cannot do better
This article contributes to the debate around early modern women’s work. It concerns not waged labour but rather the unpaid contributions made by women to both home and the business undertaken by their husband. It focuses on Elizabeth Jeake, the wife of Samuel Jeake, a merchant from the Sussex port of Rye. Through the letters exchanged between the family, it explores Elizabeth’s skilled work in support of her husband. This included giving instruc…
State Cash Resources and State Building in Europe 13th-18th century
In July 2012 historians and economists met in Paris for a conference entitled State Cash Resources and State Building in Europe: taxation and public debt, 13th-18th centuries. This volume is one of the products of that meeting. By making these essays available in both French and English translations, the editors hope to ensure a wide audience for an important set of contributions on questions relating to the development and management of public f…
Marine Insurance
This volume brings together scholars to explore the rise of the marine insurance industry. As the editor, Adrian Leonard, argues in the introductory chapter, insurance acts to transform uncertainty into known costs and thus it performs an invaluable service to commerce. The basic form of insurance has remained little changed over the past four centuries. What has altered is the means by which insurance is underwritten and sold, the legal and inst…
Clock-Watching
In 1783 the Bank of England appointed a Committee of Inspection to examine the working practices of its departments and identify any failings in procedures. The Committee spent a year interviewing a wide range of servants about the nature of their work and the working environment in which they operated. One striking factor that emerges from these interviews is the extent to which the Bank’s clerks were governed by the clock. A time was appointed …
Mindfulness-based Therapy in Modern Psychology
This article offers a comparative analysis on mindfulness from mindfulness-based therapies in the contemporary literature and from Buddhist meditation practices in the Pāli Canon. This includes a review of the presiding definitions of mindfulness, recent scientific findings in the literature and the current theories on the underlying mechanisms of mindfulness. The meditation practices from the Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR) programme a…
Inspection and Efficiency at the Eighteenth-Century Bank of England
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 Parliament-appointed Commission for Examining the Public Accounts, the Bank did establish its own investigation. Charged with examining all aspects of the Bank's business, three of the institution's directors spent a year intervi…
The Watchful Clothier
The Leeds clothier Joseph Ryder (1695–1768) lived a life shaped by the tensions between faith and capitalism. His reflections on his religion, community, work and family are preserved in a spiritua
Demanding 'credible commitment
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 its potential creditors over the long term. Yet, they failed to recognize the difficulties that were encountered along the way. This article highlights some of those difficulties and shows that at times when credible commitment was in doubt, supporters of the f…
Trading options before Black-Scholes
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 opportunity to observe the workings of an early modern derivatives market. They reveal a broadly based and highly active trade in options. The market functioned well, determined value using agreed criteria, and was utilized by …
Dealing with Uncertainty
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 introducing a series of measures, the most important of which was the foundation of the Bank of England in 1694. The state's financial innovations were enthusiastically supported by London's business community and also attracted the c…
Demanding 'credible commitment
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 its potential creditors over the long term. Yet, they failed to recognize the difficulties that were encountered along the way. This article highlights some of those difficulties and shows that at times when credible commitment was in doubt, supporters of the f…
Trading options before Black-Scholes
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 opportunity to observe the workings of an early modern derivatives market. They reveal a broadly based and highly active trade in options. The market functioned well, determined value using agreed criteria, and was utilized by …
Dealing with Uncertainty
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 introducing a series of measures, the most important of which was the foundation of the Bank of England in 1694. The state's financial innovations were enthusiastically supported by London's business community and also attracted the c…
Performing Public Credit at the Eighteenth-Century Bank of England
Much is known about the negotiation of personal credit relationships during the eighteenth century. It has been noted how direct contact and observation allowed individuals to assess the creditworthiness of those with whom they had financial connections and to whom they might lend money. Much less is known about one of the most important credit relationships of the long eighteenth century: that between the state and its creditors. This article sh…
You do manage it so well that I cannot do better
This article contributes to the debate around early modern women’s work. It concerns not waged labour but rather the unpaid contributions made by women to both home and the business undertaken by their husband. It focuses on Elizabeth Jeake, the wife of Samuel Jeake, a merchant from the Sussex port of Rye. Through the letters exchanged between the family, it explores Elizabeth’s skilled work in support of her husband. This included giving instruc…
Clock-Watching
In 1783 the Bank of England appointed a Committee of Inspection to examine the working practices of its departments and identify any failings in procedures. The Committee spent a year interviewing a wide range of servants about the nature of their work and the working environment in which they operated. One striking factor that emerges from these interviews is the extent to which the Bank’s clerks were governed by the clock. A time was appointed …
Dealing with Uncertainty
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 introducing a series of measures, the most important of which was the foundation of the Bank of England in 1694. The state's financial innovations were enthusiastically supported by London's business community and also attracted the c…
Trading options before Black-Scholes
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 opportunity to observe the workings of an early modern derivatives market. They reveal a broadly based and highly active trade in options. The market functioned well, determined value using agreed criteria, and was utilized by …
Demanding 'credible commitment
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 its potential creditors over the long term. Yet, they failed to recognize the difficulties that were encountered along the way. This article highlights some of those difficulties and shows that at times when credible commitment was in doubt, supporters of the f…
The Watchful Clothier
The Leeds clothier Joseph Ryder (1695–1768) lived a life shaped by the tensions between faith and capitalism. His reflections on his religion, community, work and family are preserved in a spiritua
Inspection and Efficiency at the Eighteenth-Century Bank of England
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 Parliament-appointed Commission for Examining the Public Accounts, the Bank did establish its own investigation. Charged with examining all aspects of the Bank's business, three of the institution's directors spent a year intervi…
Mindfulness-based Therapy in Modern Psychology
This article offers a comparative analysis on mindfulness from mindfulness-based therapies in the contemporary literature and from Buddhist meditation practices in the Pāli Canon. This includes a review of the presiding definitions of mindfulness, recent scientific findings in the literature and the current theories on the underlying mechanisms of mindfulness. The meditation practices from the Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR) programme a…
State Cash Resources and State Building in Europe 13th-18th century
In July 2012 historians and economists met in Paris for a conference entitled State Cash Resources and State Building in Europe: taxation and public debt, 13th-18th centuries. This volume is one of the products of that meeting. By making these essays available in both French and English translations, the editors hope to ensure a wide audience for an important set of contributions on questions relating to the development and management of public f…
Marine Insurance
This volume brings together scholars to explore the rise of the marine insurance industry. As the editor, Adrian Leonard, argues in the introductory chapter, insurance acts to transform uncertainty into known costs and thus it performs an invaluable service to commerce. The basic form of insurance has remained little changed over the past four centuries. What has altered is the means by which insurance is underwritten and sold, the legal and inst…
Clock-Watching
In 1783 the Bank of England appointed a Committee of Inspection to examine the working practices of its departments and identify any failings in procedures. The Committee spent a year interviewing a wide range of servants about the nature of their work and the working environment in which they operated. One striking factor that emerges from these interviews is the extent to which the Bank’s clerks were governed by the clock. A time was appointed …
You do manage it so well that I cannot do better
This article contributes to the debate around early modern women’s work. It concerns not waged labour but rather the unpaid contributions made by women to both home and the business undertaken by their husband. It focuses on Elizabeth Jeake, the wife of Samuel Jeake, a merchant from the Sussex port of Rye. Through the letters exchanged between the family, it explores Elizabeth’s skilled work in support of her husband. This included giving instruc…
Performing Public Credit at the Eighteenth-Century Bank of England
Much is known about the negotiation of personal credit relationships during the eighteenth century. It has been noted how direct contact and observation allowed individuals to assess the creditworthiness of those with whom they had financial connections and to whom they might lend money. Much less is known about one of the most important credit relationships of the long eighteenth century: that between the state and its creditors. This article sh…
Respectable Banking
In this book, Anthony Hotson considers the reasons why London’s credit and money markets enjoyed a so-called ‘century of stability from the 1870s to 1971’ (p. 44) and why stability has been so elusive over the past fifty years. The focus is on London as a financial centre, but the argument relates to British and indeed, at times, global history. This is not a new subject, of course, but Hotson, a former financier who, in a long career, also worke…
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