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Fragile by design : the political origins of banking crises and scarce credit
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Fragile by design : the political origins of banking crises and scarce credit / Charles W. Calomiris and Stephen H. Haber.
ISBN
9780691155241 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0691155240 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
Publication
Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2014]
Copyright Notice Date
©2014.
Physical Description
xi, 570 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 04, 2014
Series
Princeton economic history of the Western world.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 507-548) and index.
Contents
If stable and efficient banks are such a good idea, why are they so rare?
The game of bank bargains
Tools of conquest and survival : why states need banks
Privileges with burdens : war, empire, and the monopoly structure of English banking
Banks and democracy : Britain in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Crippled by populism : U.S. banking from colonial times to 1990
The new U.S. bank bargain : megabanks, urban activists, and the erosion of mortgage standards
Leverage, regulatory failure, and the subprime crisis
Durable partners : politics and banking in Canada
Mexico : chaos makes cronyism look good
When autocracy fails : banking and politics in Mexico since 1982
Inflation machines : banking and state finance in imperial Brazil
The democratic consequences of inflation-tax banking in Brazil
Traveling to other places : is our sample representative?
Reality is a plague on many houses.
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