Building Society Promise - Access, Risk, and Efficiency 1880-1939

Informationen zum Autor Antoninus Samy was born in Australia and educated at the University of Melbourne where he specialised in economics, mathematics, and statistics. Upon graduation, he worked for the Australian Bureau of Statistics as an econometrician, before going to the University of Oxford to undertake his doctoral studies in economic history. He was awarded the Doctor of Philosophy in 2011, and worked for a year as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Ashmolean Museum before he entered religious life as a Dominican friar in the United States. He is currently studying for the Catholic priesthood at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington DC. Klappentext Antoninus Samy explores the accessibility of the early building society movement to working-class households before World War II, drawing on extensive archival records to reconstruct the mortgage portfolios of building societies and investigate the kinds of people that were buying houses with the help of building society finance during this period. Zusammenfassung Antoninus Samy explores the accessibility of the early building society movement to working-class households before World War II, drawing on extensive archival records to reconstruct the mortgage portfolios of building societies and investigate the kinds of people that were buying houses with the help of building society finance during this period. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: The Origins and Evolution of the Building Societies in Britain 1850 - 1939 2: 'Every man his own landlord': Building Societies and Home Owndership 1880-1913 3: 'The Silent Revolution': Building Societies and the Interwar Housing Market 4: 'The Paradox of Success': The Effect of Growth, Competition, and Managerial Self-Interest on Building Society Practice and Market Structure 1880-1939 Conclusion References Appendices

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• Authors: Antoninus Samy, Antoninus (Dominican Friar Samy, Antoninus Samy Samy, Luke Samy, Samy Antoninus
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.09.2016
• EAN: 9780198787808
• ISBN: 978-0-19-878780-8
• No. of pages: 322
• Series: Oxford Historical Monographs; Oxford Historical Monographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; England, European History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, 20th Century, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Finance / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Economic history, British & Irish history, Credit and credit institutions, Credit & Credit Institutions