State Banking in the West from the Panic of 1837 to the Civil War
Author : Leonard Clinton Helderman
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Page : 188 pages
File Size : 33,57 MB
Release : 1925
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Author : Leonard Clinton Helderman
Publisher :
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 33,57 MB
Release : 1925
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Author : Davis Rich Dewey
Publisher :
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 20,70 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Banks and banking
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Author : Elmus Wicker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 11,89 MB
Release : 2006-03-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521025478
This is the first major study of post-Civil War banking panics in almost a century. The author has constructed for the first time estimates of bank closures and their incidence in each of the five separate banking disturbances. The author also reevaluates the role of the New York Clearing House in forestalling several panics and explains why it failed to do so in 1893 and 1907, concluding that structural defects of the National Banking Act were not the primary cause of the panics.
Author : Clément Juglar
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Page : 176 pages
File Size : 40,64 MB
Release : 1897
Category : Depressions
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Author : Robert Vincent Remini
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,69 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393097573
Examines Jackson's role in destroying the Second Bank of the United States and the effect of his actions on the power of the Presidency
Author : Charles W. Calomiris
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 20,2 MB
Release : 2015-08-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0691168350
Why stable banking systems are so rare Why are banking systems unstable in so many countries—but not in others? The United States has had twelve systemic banking crises since 1840, while Canada has had none. The banking systems of Mexico and Brazil have not only been crisis prone but have provided miniscule amounts of credit to business enterprises and households. Analyzing the political and banking history of the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Brazil through several centuries, Fragile by Design demonstrates that chronic banking crises and scarce credit are not accidents. Calomiris and Haber combine political history and economics to examine how coalitions of politicians, bankers, and other interest groups form, why they endure, and how they generate policies that determine who gets to be a banker, who has access to credit, and who pays for bank bailouts and rescues. Fragile by Design is a revealing exploration of the ways that politics inevitably intrudes into bank regulation.
Author : Steven R. Weisman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 27,66 MB
Release : 2004-10-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0743243811
A major work of history, The Great Tax Wars is the gripping, epic story of six decades of often violent conflict over wealth, power, and fairness that gave America the income tax. It's the story of a tumultuous period of radical change, from Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War through the progressive era under Theodore Roosevelt and ending with Woodrow Wilson and World War I. During these years of upheaval, America was transformed from an agrarian society into a mighty industrial nation, great fortunes were amassed, farmers and workers rebelled, class war was narrowly averted, and America emerged as a global power. The Great Tax Wars features an extraordinary cast of characters, including the men who built the nation's industries and the politicians and reformers who battled them -- from J. P. Morgan and Andrew Carnegie to Lincoln, T.R., Wilson, William Jennings Bryan, and Eugene Debs. From their ferocious battles emerged a more flexible definition of democracy, economic justice, and free enterprise largely framed by a more progressive tax system. In this groundbreaking book, Weisman shows how the ever controversial income tax transformed America and how today's debates about the tax echo those of the past.
Author : Andrew H. Browning
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 48,46 MB
Release : 2019-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0826274250
The Panic of 1819 tells the story of the first nationwide economic collapse to strike the United States. Much more than a banking crisis or real estate bubble, the Panic was the culmination of an economic wave that rolled through the United States, forming before the War of 1812, cresting with the land and cotton boom of 1818, and crashing just as the nation confronted the crisis over slavery in Missouri. The Panic introduced Americans to the new phenomenon of boom and bust, changed the country's attitudes towards wealth and poverty, spurred the political movement that became Jacksonian Democracy, and helped create the sectional divide that would lead to the Civil War. Although it stands as one of the turning points of American history, few Americans today have heard of the Panic of 1819, with the result that we continue to ignore its lessons—and repeat its mistakes.
Author : Sumner Sumner
Publisher : Ludwig von Mises Institute
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 26,28 MB
Release : 2007
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ISBN : 1610160746
Author : Michael Zakim
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 10,74 MB
Release : 2012-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0226451097
Most scholarship on nineteenth-century America’s transformation into a market society has focused on consumption, romanticized visions of workers, and analysis of firms and factories. Building on but moving past these studies, Capitalism Takes Command presents a history of family farming, general incorporation laws, mortgage payments, inheritance practices, office systems, and risk management—an inventory of the means by which capitalism became America’s new revolutionary tradition. This multidisciplinary collection of essays argues not only that capitalism reached far beyond the purview of the economy, but also that the revolution was not confined to the destruction of an agrarian past. As business ceaselessly revised its own practices, a new demographic of private bankers, insurance brokers, investors in securities, and start-up manufacturers, among many others, assumed center stage, displacing older elites and forms of property. Explaining how capital became an “ism” and how business became a political philosophy, Capitalism Takes Command brings the economy back into American social and cultural history.