Staff profiles
John Singleton
Phone 0114 225 3514
E-mail j.singleton@shu.ac.uk
Research interests / current work
I am interested in the history of central banking from the late nineteenth century until the current financial crisis. At present I am working on the history of public perceptions of, and hostility towards, banks and bankers since the early twentieth century, with an emphasis on Britain and the United States. I also have written extensively on the economic and financial history of New Zealand and the British Commonwealth, and on British business history, especially of the North West.
Collaboration
I am on the executive committee of the Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand and am associate editor of the Australian Economic History Review. I am joint editor of the Business History monograph series published by Pickering and Chatto.
Recent publications
Books
Central Banking in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011
The Watchdog: New Zealand's Audit Office 1840-2008 (Co-authored with David Green), Dunedin, Otago University Press, 2009
Innovation and Independence: The Reserve Bank of New Zealand, 1973-2002 (Principal author, with Arthur Grimes, Gary Hawke, and Sir Frank Holmes), Auckland, Auckland University Press, 2006
Articles in refereed journals
'Basket Pegs and Exchange Rate Regime Change: Australia and New Zealand in the Mid-Seventies', Australian Economic History Review (Co-authored with Catherine Schenk), vol. 51, no. 2, 2011, pp. 120-50.
'Regulation, Deregulation and Internationalization in South African and New Zealand Banking', Business History (Co-authored with Grietjie Verhoef), vol. 52, no. 4, 2010, pp. 536 - 563
'Lancashire and the New Zealand Market in the Mid-Twentieth Century: Cotton, Glass, and Locomotives', Manchester Region History Review, vol. 21, 2010, pp. 25-42
'The Winds of Change for Central Banks?', Central Banking, vol. 20, no. 3, 2010, pp. 23-28
'The Euromarkets and the New Zealand Government in the 1960s', Australian Economic History Review, vol. 49, no. 3, 2009, pp. 252-75
Chapters in books
'Destruction and Misery ... The First World War', in M.J. Oliver and D.H. Aldcroft, eds Economic Disasters of the Twentieth Century, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2007, pp. 9-50.
'The Central Bank and Government Partnership in Australia and New Zealand since the 1930s', in Gordon Boyce, Stuart Mcintyre and Simon Ville, eds, How Organisations Connect: Investing in Communication, Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 2006, pp. 100-22.
'Auckland Business: The National and International Context', in Ian Hunter and Diana Morrow, eds, City of Enterprise: A Business History of Auckland, Auckland, Auckland University Press, 2006, pp. 8-26.
Shorter publications
'The Reserve Bank' in Te Ara, the Online Encyclopaedia of New Zealand (forthcoming)
'Financial Crises, Sound Policies and Sound Institutions: An Interview with Michael Bordo', Reserve Bank of New Zealand Bulletin, vol 72, no. 3, 2009, pp. 61-8.
'Sydney Butlin' (with Judith Butlin) and 'Albert H. Tocker', in John King, ed., A Biographical Dictionary of Australian and New Zealand Economists, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2007, pp. 41-4, 280-2.
