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Informationen zum Autor Policy historian Robert E. Wright (Ph.D., SUNY Buffalo) has (co)authored 24 books, including The First Wall Street (Chicago 2005), One Nation Under Debt (McGraw Hill 2008), and The Wall Street Journal Guide to the 50 Economic Indicators That Really Matter (HarperCollins 2011). He taught courses in business, economics, and policy at Temple, Virginia, New York, and Augustana universities before joining the American Institute for Economic Research in January 2021. He has appeared on C-SPAN, Fox Business, and other broadcast outlets and been featured in Barron's, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post. Klappentext In The Origins of Commercial Banking in America, the first full analysis of the origins of American commercial banking since Bray Hammond's monumental study forty-five years ago, Robert E. Wright skillfully examines the political and economic forces that contributed to the origins and rise of banks in cities such as Philadelphia, New York, and Boston, as well as in smaller towns servicing rural America. Zusammenfassung Robert Wright argues that the ultimate causes of American economic development and transformation into a modern society can be reduced to the causes of American commercial banking. Wright analyzes why American banking arose when! and with the particular characteristics! it did. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Colonial Finance and the Lack of Liquidity, 1750-1775 Chapter 3 Revolutionary Change, 1750-1783 Chapter 4 Three Key Crises, 1783-1787 Chapter 5 Banking and Business in the 1790s and Beyond Chapter 6 Businessmen and Banking, 1790-1800 Chapter 7 Conclusion
