Banking Panics of the Gilded Age

Klappentext This was the first major study of post-Civil War banking panics in almost a century. Zusammenfassung This was the first major study of post-Civil War banking panics in almost a century. The author re-evaluates the role of the New York Clearing House! concluding that structural defects of the National Banking Act were not the primary cause of the panics. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The bank panic experience: an overview; 2. The banking panic of 1873; 3. Two incipient banking panics of 1884 and 1890: an unheralded success story; 4. The banking panic of 1893; 5. The trust company panic of 1907; 6. Were panics of the national banking era preventable?; 7. Epilogue; Appendix; References; Index.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Wicker Elmus, Elmus Wicker, Elmus (Indiana University) Wicker, Elmus R. Wicker
• Mitarbeit: Michael D. Bordo (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 30.03.2006
• EAN: 9780521025478
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02547-8
• Seiten: 180
• Serien: Studies in Macroeconomic Histo; Studies in Macroeconomic History
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Regional- und Ländergeschichte; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Wirtschaft > Volkswirtschaft