The Foreign Expansion of American Banks
Author : Clyde William Phelps
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 35,72 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Banks and banking
ISBN :
The Economics of World War I
Author : Stephen Broadberry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 22,46 MB
Release : 2005-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1139448358
Book Description
This unique volume offers a definitive new history of European economies at war from 1914 to 1918. It studies how European economies mobilised for war, how existing economic institutions stood up under the strain, how economic development influenced outcomes and how wartime experience influenced post-war economic growth. Leading international experts provide the first systematic comparison of economies at war between 1914 and 1918 based on the best available data for Britain, Germany, France, Russia, the USA, Italy, Turkey, Austria-Hungary and the Netherlands. The editors' overview draws some stark lessons about the role of economic development, the importance of markets and the damage done by nationalism and protectionism. A companion volume to the acclaimed The Economics of World War II, this is a major contribution to our understanding of total war.
International Banking 1870-1914
Author : Rondo Cameron
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 14,30 MB
Release : 1992-03-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0195345126
Book Description
This book, the product of a unique international scholarly collaboration sponsored jointly by the American Council of Learned Societies and the Soviet Academy of Sciences, provides a comprehensive survey on international banking from 1870 to 1914. In that period international investment reached dimensions previously unknown, and the banking systems of the world achieved a degree of internationalization without precedent. The book's authors, twenty-five scholars from fifteen countries, are the acknowledged experts in their fields. They detail the origin and development of internationally oriented banks in each major country, and explain their role in foreign investment and industrial finance. They look at all areas of the world that were involved in international investment, either as investors, recipients of investment, or both. The definitive work on international banking from 1870 to 1914, this book will interest scholars and students in financial and banking history, bankers and economists in the finanical industry, and general historians.
Saving the City
Author : Richard Roberts
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 32,69 MB
Release : 2013-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0199646546
Book Description
A week before the outbreak of the First World War, an acute financial crisis surged over London: the Stock Exchange closed; money markets worldwide were paralysed. Drawing on diaries, letters, memoirs, press reports, and official archives, this book tells the extraordinary, and largely unknown, story of the first true global financial crisis.
The History of Foreign Investment in the United States, 1914-1945
Author : Mira WILKINS
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 1009 pages
File Size : 11,7 MB
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0674045181
Book Description
Mira Wilkins, the foremost authority on foreign investment in the United States, continues her magisterial history in a work covering the critical years 1914-1945. Wilkins includes all long-term inward foreign investments, both portfolio (by individuals and institutions) and direct (by multinationals), across such enterprises as chemicals and pharmaceuticals, textiles, insurance, banks and mortgage providers, other service sector companies, and mining and oil industries. She traces the complex course of inward investments, presents the experiences of the investors, and examines the political and economic conditions, particularly the range of public policies, that affected foreign investments. She also offers valuable discussions on the intricate cross-investments of inward and outward involvements and the legal precedents that had long-term consequences on foreign investment. At the start of World War I, the United States was a debtor nation. By the end of World War II, it was a creditor nation with the strongest economy in the world. Integrating economic, business, technological, legal, and diplomatic history, this comprehensive study is essential to understanding the internationalization of the American economy, as well as broader global trends.
Bankers Magazine
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 996 pages
File Size : 26,92 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Banks and banking
ISBN :
Book Description
The Federal Reserve System Purposes and Functions
Author : Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,75 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Banks and Banking
ISBN : 9780894991967
Book Description
Provides an in-depth overview of the Federal Reserve System, including information about monetary policy and the economy, the Federal Reserve in the international sphere, supervision and regulation, consumer and community affairs and services offered by Reserve Banks. Contains several appendixes, including a brief explanation of Federal Reserve regulations, a glossary of terms, and a list of additional publications.
Bankers and Empire
Author : Peter James Hudson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 23,44 MB
Release : 2017-04-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 022645925X
Book Description
From the end of the nineteenth century until the onset of the Great Depression, Wall Street embarked on a stunning, unprecedented, and often bloody period of international expansion in the Caribbean. A host of financial entities sought to control banking, trade, and finance in the region. In the process, they not only trampled local sovereignty, grappled with domestic banking regulation, and backed US imperialism—but they also set the model for bad behavior by banks, visible still today. In Bankers and Empire, Peter James Hudson tells the provocative story of this period, taking a close look at both the institutions and individuals who defined this era of American capitalism in the West Indies. Whether in Wall Street minstrel shows or in dubious practices across the Caribbean, the behavior of the banks was deeply conditioned by bankers’ racial views and prejudices. Drawing deeply on a broad range of sources, Hudson reveals that the banks’ experimental practices and projects in the Caribbean often led to embarrassing failure, and, eventually, literal erasure from the archives.
Public Affairs Information Service Bulletin
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 22,19 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Economics
ISBN :
Book Description
The State and American Foreign Economic Policy
Author : G. John Ikenberry
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 34,80 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780801495243
Book Description
How has the U.S. government made the nation's foreign economic policy over the last hundred years? Social scientists have traditionally presented the American state as relatively weak, its policies as directly reflecting the domestic balance of strength among interested social groups and economic sectors. This collection of essays by seven notable young political scientists provides a theoretical reevaluation of the forces at work in national policy making and present evidence that the effectiveness of the national government in shaping U.S. policy has been greatly underestimated.
