Banks and politics during the Progressive Era : the origins of the Federal Reserve System, 1897-1913 /
Despite the political potency of money and banking issues, historians have largely dismissed the Progressive Era political debate over banking as irrelevant and have been preoccupied with explaining the shortcomings, limitations and inadequacies of the Federal Reserve Act. The picture that has emerg...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
London ; New York :
Routledge,
2012, ©1992.
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Colección: | Routledge library editions. Banking & finance ;
v. 21. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Despite the political potency of money and banking issues, historians have largely dismissed the Progressive Era political debate over banking as irrelevant and have been preoccupied with explaining the shortcomings, limitations and inadequacies of the Federal Reserve Act. The picture that has emerged is one of bankers controlling the course of financial reform with the assistance of political leaders who were either subservient, hopelessly naive or insincere in their public opposition to bankers. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 341 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-323) and index. |
ISBN: | 9781136301193 1136301194 |