`The work that made the deepest impression on me because of the great practical importance of its conclusions and novelty of its argument went to the heart of the controversy over monetarism ... The book has started off a major controversy that will no doubt continue ... its influence is sure to grow.' Alec Cairncross

• Introduction; Part I: The Behaviour of the Financial System; The Macroeconomic Behaviour of the Banking System; The Behaviour of Interest Rates: the Theoretical Background; The Behaviour of Interest Rates Continued; The Behaviour of Exchange Rates; Government Transactions, Money, and Interest Rates; Part II: Monetary Control and the Course of the Aggregates: UK Monetary Policy since 1971; Central-bank Rate as an Instrument of Monetary Control; Monetary Base Control; The Corset, Overfunding, and Banking Supervision; Monetary Growth since the mid-1960s; Part III: Conclusions: The Limitations and Role of Monetary Policy; Monetary Policy Without Monetary Targets; Bibliography; Index