Goodhart, Charles A E - In: International Finance 2 (1999) 3, pp. 339-60
This topic has been prone to the accretion of myths that sometimes obscure the key issues. As a start, Bagehot is often treated as the first to write on the subject, ignoring Thornton's contribution. Next, Bagehot's proposal that such lending be at "high" rates is incorrectly translated into...