लेखक: J. R. Shackleton

Geoffrey Wood is Emeritus Professor of Economics at Cass Business School in London and Emeritus Professor of Monetary Economics at the University of Buckingham. A graduate of Aberdeen and Essex Universities, he has worked in the Federal Reserve System and the Bank of England. Overseas he has advised several central banks and national treasuries. He is currently a director of an investment trust and an adviser to several financial institutions, two pension funds and the Treasury Select Committee of the House of Commons; he was also adviser to the Parliamentary Banking Commission until the Commission ceased to exist on the publication of its report. He has authored, co-authored or edited over forty books and has published over 100 academic papers. His fields of interest are monetary economics, monetary history and financial regulation.