Bank: Inside the Bank of England - Hardcover

Very readable... Conaghan accurately describes the shift of the bank s centre of gravity following the granting of independence on monetary policy...Conaghan s book is well worth reading. It takes the reader through the arguments of the last 15 years. Every page raises the same two questions: how is the bank run and how are decisions made? Alistair Darling MP, Former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Total Politics. --http://www.totalpolitics.com/life/313332/darling-bank-of-england-needs-proper-governance.thtml

'With its depth of source material and high quality of analysis dealing with a highly secretive and complex institution, Conaghan s recent history of the Bank is timely, informative, and highly readable.' --http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2012/07/13/book-review-the-bank-inside-the-bank-of-england/

An accessible and entertaining account of the Bank s recent history, offering a tantalising glimpse of life behind its Threadneedle Street facade, and deftly sketching the personalities and foibles of its main characters particularly its cerebral, domineering Governor. Peter Thal Larsen, Reuters BreakingViews. --http://www.breakingviews.com/review-bank-of-england-exposed-but-not-decoded/21004968.article

Very good and essential reading for all bond geeks Jim Leaviss, Head of Retail Fixed Interest, M&G, BondVigilantes. --http://www.bondvigilantes.com/2012/03/06/the-bank-inside-the-bank-of-england-by-dan-conaghan-thoughts-and-a-competition/

An accessible and entertaining account of the Bank s recent history, offering a tantalising glimpse of life behind its Threadneedle Street facade, and deftly sketching the personalities and foibles of its main characters particularly its cerebral, domineering Governor. Peter Thal Larsen, Reuters BreakingViews. --http://www.breakingviews.com/review-bank-of-england-exposed-but-not-decoded/21004968.article

Very good and essential reading for all bond geeks Jim Leaviss, Head of Retail Fixed Interest, M&G, BondVigilantes. --http://www.bondvigilantes.com/2012/03/06/the-bank-inside-the-bank-of-england-by-dan-conaghan-thoughts-and-a-competition/

An accessible and entertaining account of the Bank s recent history, offering a tantalising glimpse of life behind its Threadneedle Street facade, and deftly sketching the personalities and foibles of its main characters particularly its cerebral, domineering Governor. Peter Thal Larsen, Reuters BreakingViews. --http://www.breakingviews.com/review-bank-of-england-exposed-but-not-decoded/21004968.article

Very good and essential reading for all bond geeks Jim Leaviss, Head of Retail Fixed Interest, M&G, BondVigilantes. --http://www.bondvigilantes.com/2012/03/06/the-bank-inside-the-bank-of-england-by-dan-conaghan-thoughts-and-a-competition/

The Bank of England is a uniquely powerful, influential and secretive institution. The decisions which flow from it affect everyone in Britain and many further afield. It is a hugely important cog in the machinery of government, of the City of London and of the global financial markets. Its powers extend far beyond its month-by-month direction of monetary policy to the wilder shores of economic policy, including hundred-billion-pound schemes to prop up Britain's ailing economy. This is the first inside account of the Bank, drawing on interviews with senior current and former Bank staff, that sheds new light on Sir Mervyn King's position and the Bank's role in the financial crisis, including Northern Rock, the banks' billion-pound bailouts and disagreements with the Treasury over Quantitative Easing. It is a superbly written and well-researched tale of King's 'strong, controlling and often inflexible personality', of Machiavelianism at the heart of the financial markets and the extraordinary power that this most secretive and remarkably autonomous institition wields.