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The crisis in American banking /

The U.S. banking system, its regulation and deregulation, and especially its deposit guarantees, continue to pose complex problems. The Crisis in American Banking offers six original perspectives on this continuing crisis, drawing from modern Austrian economics and from public choice theories that h...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: White, Lawrence H.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York, N.Y. : NYU Press, ©1993
Series:Political economy of the Austrian school.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • 1. Why is the U.S. banking industry in trouble? Business cycles, loan losses, and deposit insurance
  • 2. Public-sector deficits and private-sector performance
  • 3. An empirical analysis of public choice aspects of the savings and loan disaster
  • 4. Bankers as scapegoats for government-created banking crises in U.S. history
  • 5. Deposit insurance reform is not enough
  • 6. The diminishing role of commercial banking in the U.S. economy
  • Contributors
  • Index.