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Unsettled Account : The Evolution of Banking in the Industrialized World since 1800 /

Commercial banks are among the oldest and most familiar financial institutions. When they work well, we hardly notice; when they do not, we rail against them. What are the historical forces that have shaped the modern banking system? In Unsettled Account, Richard Grossman takes the first truly compa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Grossman, Richard S.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2010.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Origins of banking
  • Banking crises
  • Rescuing the banking system: bailouts, lenders of last resort, and more extreme measures
  • Merger movements
  • Regulation
  • Banking evolution in England
  • Banking evolution in Sweden
  • Banking evolution in the United States
  • Constrained and deregulated banking in the twentieth century and beyond.